The Johnston County Arts Council serves and promotes every artistic discipline: Dance, Music, Theatre, Storytelling, Literary Arts, Visual Arts, Folk Arts, Multi-disciplinary Arts, and any in-between.
The video below shows 2008 Cultural Arts Festival, held each year for Johnston County teachers to book artists through the Johnston County Arts Council's Artists-in-the-Schools program
The video below shows the North Carolina State Employees Combined Campaign Kick-off Event. If you are a State Employee, you can give to various charities through the SECC. Johnston County Arts Council partipates in the SECC; give to code #3615.
The video below shows the North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer visiting North Johnston High School and leading a poetry workshop for Junior and Senior English Students.
The video below is of just one type of Artists-in-the-Schools Program. In March 2008, Environmental Artist Bryant Holsenbeck visited Riverwood Middle to teach students how to turn "found objects" into art.
Our heroes are the companies and individuals that give to the Johnston County Arts Council!
Artists Inner Circle $10,000
North Carolina Arts Council Fred Smith Company Progress Energy Johnston County Schools Johnston County Government
Platinum $5,000
Embarq Talecris Target Carolina Hurricanes- Kids 'N Community Foundation
Gold $2,500
Town of Clayton
Casey's Catering and Florist
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation
Silver $1,000
BB&T
Caterpillar, Inc.
Four Oaks Bank
Hometowne Realty
Johnston County Homebuilders Association
KS Bank
Wal-Mart
Johnston County Community Foundation
Virtual Business Connection
The Johnston County Arts Council provides quality opportunities in the arts for every Johnston County resident.
Our Goals and Objectives
As a service to the 136,000 residents of Johnston County, the Arts Council:
Funds arts programs and projects throughout the county
Improves the quality of education for over 29,000 students in our schools through the Artistis-in-the-Schools program
Promotes local artists and arts activities available to the public
Provides key resources like the local artist database, community arts calendar and Arts Council website
Serves as a key resource in making Johnston County a great place to live, work and raise a family
The Johnston County Arts Council (code # 3615) is part of the State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC). If you are or someone you know is a State Employee, give to JCAC through the SECC!
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Johnston County Arts Council's Friend Space (Randomized)
My career has bridged parts of five decades, so far... I was called "North Carolina's #1 Blue-eyed Blues singer". I've also sung with rock bands, country bands, variety bands & I worked as a sideman with The Coasters, The Drifters, Spyder Turner, Maurice Williams, Percy Sledge, Marcel Evans, Thomas "Guitar" Gable & Clifford Curry, among others. In my "spare time", I played piano bars from Virginia to Georgia. For about a decade I led a blues powerhouse as "the BluesFiddler", recording 3 CD's & burning up the blues circuit with my "funky white fiddle"... winning the prestigious Low Country Blues Bash in Charleston, SC in February of 1996... & a 2002 honor as "One Of 2002's Most Important Indie Bands". "Thank The Lord", a 2004 homage to Black Gospel, crossed over onto the Southern Gospel charts (#66 on the October 2005 Singing News Top 80)... & in 2006 I returned to the blues circuit with Asheville's Gas House Mouse. By 2007, I had decided to return to my "roots" with my 5th CD, "A Piano, A Mic & Me". My name is Dave Foraker...I pound the piano, tell stories & sing the blues... oh yeh, sometimes I get free food!. I'm currently doin' mostly solo gigs... but I team up, from time to time, with mandolinists, violinists, guitar pickers & harp blowers flavorin' my bluesified sound. I just completed my 11th season at The Biltmore Estate... & I'd like to thank my many friends that have scheduled trips to The Biltmore Estate to coincide with my afternoon sessions @ The Winery. I'll be back in 2009 (starting May 3rd) at The Festival Of Flowers... see ya then...
I'm accepting bookings for 2009... at festivals, music halls and other venues ...
Hello JCAC, As the hottest jazz/funk trio in the area, we are looking forward to an opportunity to work again for the Johnston County Arts Council again this year.
Join us in Raleigh at Sushi Blues Cafe this Saturday Jan 24.
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