Libraries, museums and media
In Carrboro. 3 dated events, 1974–2023.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.
Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about The ArtsCenter, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Katie R. Almirall's senior honors thesis statement, written to accompany her exhibition in the Center Gallery of the ArtsCenter in Carrboro from April 2 to 28, 2007. Twenty one leaves with illustrations, describing collaborative art work with Latino young people in the town. Topics include community arts projects and Hispanic American youth in Carrboro.
William Bish asked in 1992 how government funding shapes arts programming, drawing on the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, and considering arts fundraising in the town and across North Carolina. A typescript of 66 leaves, closing with a bibliography on leaves 65 and 66.
Event calendars issued by the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, recorded from 1995 and printed in illustrated volumes at 35 centimeters. The title varies from issue to issue. The series gives dates and listings for the center's performances and classes.
Events bulletin published from 1988 by the ArtSchool in Carrboro, listing its own coming events together with those of the wider arts community. Issued in illustrated volumes of varying size. Covering the arts in Carrboro, the run gives a close picture of the town's arts calendar from the late 1980s onward.
Course catalog of the ArtSchool at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, listing the classes the arts organization offered. Issued in illustrated volumes at 28 centimeters, with a note that the title varies slightly between issues. Topics include the study and teaching of art in Carrboro, so the run shows what local students could sign up for term by term.
Monthly event listings from the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, covering performances and other activities. Issued in illustrated volumes, 35 centimeters, with a title that varies.
Season brochures from the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, the performing arts center whose programming these volumes announce. The title changes with the year, so catalogs record it with an ellipsis, and the issues run to 22 centimeters with color illustrations. Topics include centers for the performing arts in Carrboro. A season by season announcement of what the center had booked.
Not about The ArtsCenter alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.
Robert J. Ayers drew this folding map of Chapel Hill and Carrboro using data gathered by John R. Gove; the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association published it under a 1954 copyright. The 1958 printing shows the towns, the University, streets, creeks and country clubs. On the back is text for the Chapel Hill School Art Guild house tour of 30 October 1960, with eleven houses marked in red.
Found a book OCPL doesn’t own? You can often borrow it through interlibrary loan at OCPL.
These books don’t necessarily mention The ArtsCenter, but they cover where it stands, its kind of building and the land, family and burial records behind it, and they are where a search for a place like this usually goes next. All are at OCPL, most in the Wall Collection.
Pictorial history of Carrboro in Arcadia's Images of America series by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington, published in 2011. Its 127 pages of photographs, maps, facsimiles and portraits cover the town's history, social life and African American community, with a bibliography and index.
Second Images of America volume on Carrboro by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington (Arcadia, 2015). Chapters follow the town from mill village to growing urban center, then turn to its merchants, the arts, festivals, changing demographics and changing architecture, in 95 illustrated pages.
Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.
Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern's field guide to the historic buildings of the North Carolina Piedmont, arranged county by county from Wake and Franklin in the east to Mecklenburg and Gaston in the west. The Orange County section takes in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro along with the rural county, with entries on individual buildings and maps for finding them. Published 2003, 596 pages with illustrations and maps.
Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.
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