A vision six years ago by Wilson community leaders to restore and preserve the gigantic wind-driven kinetic sculptures created by one of North Carolina's most recognized artists took a giant leap toward completion with the announcement this week of a Kohler Foundation gift.
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Last February, Governor Pat McCrory announced a set of public hearings to plan a new monument on the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh dedicated to commemorating the achievements of African Americans.
The gift will help support interactive learning opportunities for children visiting the Pepsi Family Center, located inside Tryon Palace’s North Carolina History Center.
The National Geographic Society has awarded the North Carolina Zoo's Dr. Corinne Kendall a $20,000 grant in support of her project on vultures.
Planning for interactive spaces to engage young minds and bodies are coming to the North Carolina Transportation Museum and Tryon Palace thanks to a generous $115,000 grant from the Charles A. Cannon Charitable Trusts to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCDNCR).
The deadline to apply for the Mary B. Regan Community Artist Residency award is set for Tuesday, March 15.
The CSS Neuse Gunboat Association has agreed to cover the cost of Green Lamp Head Start's Nov. 18 visit to the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center. As a nonprofit, Green Lamp has a limited fund to cover off-site trips.
State officials today announced the award of $6 million in grants through the federal Recreational Trails Program to 38 local governments in 35 North Carolina counties for trails projects.
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has received a $50,000 grant from Duke Energy that will fund student tours of and studio classes related to the Museum’s fall exhibitions The Worlds of M. C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination and Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind.
The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources State Historic Preservation Office (HPO) is pleased to announce support to 11 historic preservation projects in nine counties around the state with awards of $95,050 in federal grants for 2015.