{"id":1928,"date":"2009-07-30T07:09:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2009-07-30T07:09:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:09:49","slug":"art-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2009\/07\/art-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Art listings have moved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Galleries and artists please note that we have moved our art listings to next Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regular issue of The Carrboro Citizen. If you would like your show or opening listed, please email your information to calendar@carrborocitizen.com by noon Monday, Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PlayMakers awarded NEA grant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PlayMakers Repertory Company has been awarded a national arts grant for its upcoming production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPlayMakers will receive a $30,000 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Access to Artistic Excellence Grant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in support of the theater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nov. 11-Dec. 20 production of Nickleby.<\/p>\n<p>The play by David Edgar, from the novel by Charles Dickens, will be the biggest production in PlayMakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 history, with 25 actors playing more than 150 characters. <\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the production, PlayMakers will launch an in-depth outreach program called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Dickens Initiative: From the Page to the Stage\/Literature and the Art of Theatre.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The initiative will focus on literacy through Dickens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 storytelling, partnering with libraries, schools, book clubs and other organizations. An array of community events will be part of the initiative, including a week in residence by playwright David Edgar with a master class and public lecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ackland names chief curator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter Nisbet, formerly the Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum at the Harvard Art Museum, has been appointed chief curator of the Ackland Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Nisbet will lead the Ackland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s curatorial department, responsible for efforts including exhibitions and donor and collector cultivation.<br \/>\nNisbet holds bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degrees from Cambridge University and a doctorate in art history from Yale University. Before joining Harvard in 1983, he held assistantships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Yale University Art Gallery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art listings have moved Galleries and artists please note that we have moved our art listings to next Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regular issue of The Carrboro Citizen. If you would like your show or opening listed, please email your information to calendar@carrborocitizen.com by noon Monday, Aug. 3. PlayMakers awarded NEA grant PlayMakers Repertory Company has been awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}