Category: Partner News
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» Free Youth Artists Workshops for Roanoke City Youth
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Calling Roanoke’s top youth artists! Attend free workshops this summer to help produce work that will be added to the City of Roanoke’s permanent collection. The workshops, led by artist Heather Marshall will result in six works to be installed in the Oliver Hill Justice Center waiting room for Juvenile…
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» Designing Creative Communities: Book read begins April 11
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Got a creative project that will make the community a better place? We’re taking a look at creating change locally through in our next Change Academy read. We found a fun book that is available at Book No Further. While the book is self-published by Spud Marshall through Amazon,…
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» Gather March 4-6 at Arts-Pop!
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The Roanoke creative community will celebrate the arts at Roanoke Arts-Pop! on March 4-6. A free event at the Taubman Museum of Art, the weekend will offer free performances and engagements from more than 25 organizations. Curious? Learn more below at this week’s BUZZ episode. The Roanoke Arts Commission is…
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» Collective arts & culture marketing kicks off Feb 23 with BUZZ!
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ROANOKE, VA – Feb. 17, 2022 – The City of Roanoke granted $30,000 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to the Roanoke Cultural Endowment for a Collective Arts & Cultural Marketing project. The project will result in collective storytelling tools around collaborative arts and cultural events, strategies, and challenges.…
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» On the Podcast: The Women of Alma Ensemble
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Alma Ensemble formed as an avenue for three musicians to make music together. The collaboration has grown to commission music for their own performance, but also for an upcoming world premier to be performed by Roanoke City Public Schools students. Sarah Wardle Jones, Erica Sipes, and Michelle Smith Johnson “borrow…
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» FLOATING, TOGETHER by Josh Nolan
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Josh Nolan’s Floating, Together is the first mural funded under a new pilot program by the Roanoke Arts Commission. The public/private funding strategy triples a city investment in getting more public facing art in place by partnering with interested property owners and neighborhood or business associations. Learn more about the…
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» New program puts ART IN PLACE
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In 2021, the City of Roanoke began a pilot public/private partnership strategy to encourage public facing art on private property. Dubbed ART IN PLACE, the program requires a 2 to 1 match provided by the property owner and a neighborhood or business association. To date, three projects have received approval…
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» SWVA Realness on the Podcast with The House of Expression
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Garland Gravely founded House of Expression in 2019. Part of the global ballroom culture that’s grown over the past century, the house structure emerged in the 1970’s in New York City. On October 23rd, the House of Expression will host SWVA’s first mini-ball. Listen to our conversation with Garland Gravely…
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» Artists at work on designs for the GRANDIN ART WALK
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OVERVIEW The Roanoke Co+op, the Roanoke Arts Commission, and the Grandin Village Business Association are seeking exhibition-ready installation pieces and will unveil the Grandin Village Art Walk in the spring/summer of 2022. The project will be a multi-mural installation comprised of nine (9) separate murals to be installed on the…
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» Home sought for Eaton’s “Chairway to Heaven”
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Chairway to Heaven is a site-specific installation at Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, in Roanoke, Va. It was originally made for the Laybrinth Exhibition as part of the 2011 Marginal Arts Festival, but was retained by the church as a permanent installation. The church will no longer be have access to the…