Artspace In the Community
2025 Summer Celebration
August 2025
Artspace hosted our annual Summer Celebration, a free event celebrating the work of our summer campers!
Artspace displayed more than 400 artworks by youth artists, and we were joined by our friends from Paperhand Puppets and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences!
2025 Universal Access Artist in Residence at Raleigh's Disability Pride Month Celebration
July 2025
2025 Universal Access Artist in Residence Molly Lastra recently led a tactile collage activity at Raleigh’s Disability Pride Month Celebration! The activity was designed for people with low vision to use tactile guides to create their own collages.
The Universal Access Residency is awarded each year to an artist with a disability, providing a key professional development opportunity to an artist of an underserved community.
Artspace Begins Partnership with Tongue & Groove
May 2025
We are proud to announce a new partnership with Tongue & Groove to host their monthly free open mics at Artspace. The open mic event gathers local talent of all kinds—poetry, music, storytelling, and more—to co-create a day of ephemeral art.
Visit Artspace on the second Sunday of the month (1-3pm) in 2025 to participate!
Director of Community Engagement David Moore Accepts New Role with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
April 2025
Artspace extends heartfelt congratulations to David Moore, our Director of Community Engagement, as he steps into a new role as a Placemaking Project Manager/Planner III with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Arts on the Block
April 2025
We had an incredible time hosting our first ever block party, bringing the joy of the arts to all of Historic City Market!
Over 2600 people showed up to enjoy a vendor market, local DJs, creative exhibitions, art activities, artist demos, wine tastings, and more.
This event would not have been possible without the hard work and support of our volunteers, vendors, community partners, and sponsors. Thank you for coming out to celebrate a day of community and visual art!
Creative Director Annah Lee Transitions to New Leadership Role at the Cultural Center of Holly Springs
April 2025
After a decade of visionary leadership at Artspace, Creative Director Annah Lee will be transitioning into a new role as Manager of the Cultural Center of Holly Springs. In this new position, she will oversee and develop programming that supports both visual and performing artists, continuing her dedication to fostering artistic communities across the region.
February 2025
Thanks to funding from The Jandy Ammons Foundation, Raleigh Area Land Trust (RALT) and Artspace will be partnering to bring community-designed public art installations to the future Cottages of Idlewild affordable housing development.
The Jandy Ammons Foundation grant will support community engagement, a neighborhood arts committee, and more—building ways for the entire community to shape its future development.
Artspace Awarded $80,000 Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
January 2025
Artspace is proud to announce that it has been awarded $80,000 Multi-year Program Support grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts!
The grant will support Artspace‘s commitment to building the careers of artists through professional development, exhibitions, artists-in-residence, and artistic programming. Artspace is one of 47 organizations to receive funding from the Foundation in Fall 2024.
Artspace Celebrates 25 Years of Artist Residencies
2024
Artspace is proud to share that 2024 marks 25 years of our artist residency programs! These programs are career incubators offering free studio space, resources, and a culminating exhibition at a critical point in an artist’s career. Today our residency programs include the North Carolina Emerging Artist Residency, the HBCU Alumni Artist Residency, and the Universal Access Artist Residency.
Look back on the history and impact of these programs with this video directed by Eric Barstow, Multimedia Director at Duke University.
ArtGivers Supports Artists and Brightens Healing Spaces
December 2024
ArtGivers, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Artspace Studio Artist Adam D. Cohen, installed over 60 pieces of art from emerging professional artists this year in three healing spaces around the Triangle: the new addition to the women’s campus of Healing Transitions, a residential drug rehab facility in Raleigh; Families Moving Forward NC, a temporary shelter for unhoused families in Durham; and Urban Ministries of Wake County, a free medical clinic and food pantry in Raleigh. Each artist was paid for their work, and the recipient organizations chose the art that is now theirs to own.
ArtGivers is 501(c)3 organization dedicated to getting the healing power of art into more lives, in a way that supports artists.
Art Bash
November 2024
Artspace hosted another unforgettable evening at Art Bash 2024! Our annual fundraiser, Art Bash, brings together hundreds of art enthusiasts to our downtown hub to celebrate North Carolina artists and support Artspace’s mission.
This year, we raised a record $157,000 to support our year-round work of inspiring positive community impact through art. Thank you to our staff, studio artists, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees for a fabulous night!
Studio Artist Peter Marín Organizes Día de los Muertos Installation
November 2024
Studio Artist Peter Marín organized a massive art installation for Día de Oakwood, a Day of the Dead celebration at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. Marín designed large-scale ofrendas filled with thousands of paper flowers made by local students and community volunteers.
See this NPR article to learn more about the project!
Artspace on the Go
2024
We’re excited to share that we’re launching Artspace on the Go – a mobile art van that brings the magic of arts education to children in grades K-12 and their families in underserved neighborhoods. The van tackles inequity in arts access head-on by providing free, artist-led, high quality art education experiences. Check out our upcoming tour dates and meet the van and create with us and help the van hit the road with a donation of any size.
Striving for Equality Mural
April 2024
Studio Artist Adriana Ameigh’s mural, Striving for Equality is temporarily up at Moore Square. This community art project was painted by the public during Feminist First Friday. Striving for Equality celebrates the achievements of women in history and contemporary society. Funding provided by Downtown Raleigh Alliance with support by Artspace .
Mural at Cortez Restaurant
March 2024
Recently Artspace Board Member Pepe Caudillo organized the creation of a mural at Cortez Restaurant on Glenwood Avenue. He, along with five volunteers, completed the project in 12 hours. This is the second mural Caudillo has organized to address racism in our community and society, and he hopes to organize more murals in the future.
Reflecting on our Residencies
January 2024
January was the final First Friday for NC Emerging Artists in Residence Isabel Lu and Anna Payne Rogers Previtte and HBCU Artist in Residence Jalen Jackson as our 2023 Artists in Residence! We are excited to share that all three residents will be staying at Artspace and moving into permanent studios happening later this month! Check out these interviews with our Artists in Residence by IDEAL intern Mona Abraham.
Artspace President + CEO, Carly Jones, attends the Loophole of Retreat symposium
October 2022
Artspace President + CEO, Carly Jones, had the incredible opportunity to attend the Loophole of Retreat symposium organized by Rashida Bumbray with curatorial advisors Saidiya Hartman, University Professor at Columbia University, and Tina Campt, Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. This three-day symposium, held during the Venice Biennale October 7-9, included dialogue, performances, and presentations centered on Black women’s intellectual and creative labor.
Regional Emerging Artist in Residence Freddie Bell Painting a Mural for Mettlesome
August 2022
Artspace Regional Emerging Artist in Residence Freddie Bell (Studio 215a) is working on a mural for Mettlesome in Durham. In Bell’s work, iterative, graphic shapes, saturated color, and pattern become the visual language to explore themes of binaries and systems we have created for ourselves as individuals and communities.
President + CEO Carly Jones joins ARTS NC Board
August 2022
We are excited to share that our President + CEO, Carly Jones, is a part of the recent cohort of new board members for ARTS North Carolina, our state’s advocacy organization for the arts. ARTS North Carolina calls for equity and access to the arts for all North Carolinians, unifies and connects North Carolina’s arts communities, and fosters arts leadership. This week she attended her first Arts North Carolina Board Retreat, held in Asheville this year, along with arts leaders from across the state. To learn more about how you can be involved in ARTS North Carolina or support its work through leadership, advocacy, training, or networking, check out their website.
Studio Artist Richard Wilson Recently Interviewed by PBS NC-TV
July 2022
New Artspace Studio Artist Richard Wilson (Studio 216) was recently interviewed by PBS NC-TV, for an episode called the “The Creative Economy,” which will explore how local support of the arts can spur economic development. Stay tuned for future airing dates!
Richard was also recently commissioned to paint six portraits for the University of Georgia. Additionally, he recently completed for the University the official portraits of Harold A. Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo, and Kerry Rushin Miller, the first African American students to enroll as freshmen at the University and to complete their undergraduate degrees. These portraits will be unveiled on August 4, and will be displayed in the newly constructed freshmen residential hall, which is named after them. In 2018, Richard Wilson painted for the University the official portrait of Mary Frances Early, the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia. Early’s portrait now hangs in the administrative building in front of the President of the University, Jere W. Morehead’s office.
Artspace Announces David Moore as New Director of Community Engagement
January 2022
Artspace President + CEO Carly P. Jones has named David Moore as Director of Community Engagement; Moore began his new role on January 10. Moore comes to Artspace from Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA) where he served as the Placemaking + Activations Manager and managed strategic partnerships, small-scale activations, and public art projects.While at DRA, he produced Moore Square Market growing attendance by 400% in one year, re-energized the First Friday Raleigh program, and created new public space activations including Dine Out Downtown, Jazz in the Square, and Noon Tunes. Moore has also been an advocate for public art and developed DRA’s public art program resulting in several temporary installations, Green City, USA mural on the AT&T building, Rainbow Head sculpture located in Nash Square, an interactive public art map, and the Illuminate Art Walk, Raleigh’s first light art festival. Prior to joining DRA, he worked for NewTown Macon as a Project Manager spearheading events, placemaking, and public art initiatives in downtown Macon, Georgia.
colored pencil drawing by Jaimon Caceres
Jaimon Caceres Interviewed by 27587 Magazine
January 2022
Artspace Studio Artist Jaimon Caceres (Studio 214) was recently interviewed by 27587 Magazine. Jaimon shares about how he came to be a visual artist after dancing for the Asheville Ballet Company, his artistic process, and what is currently inspiring him. Read the article here.