Creative Greensboro

Greensboro native and acclaimed drummer Larry Draughn has performed worldwide with leading jazz artists. During Creative Greensboro's Residency for Original Works, Draughn will focus his project on legendary jazz drummer Dannie Richmond and guitarist Tal Farlow—both fellow Greensboro natives. Over a six-week workshop series, he will gather stories and historical perspectives to inspire new musical compositions.

The Gate City’s office for arts and culture is taking applications for this year’s Neighborhood Arts program competition.

A new public art initiative will support Greensboro artists as they transform bus shelters into public works of art that reflect their community's stories, values, and lived experiences.

LaToya Winslow, owner of Mane Curl Press, will lead weekly workshops on designing journals at the Greensboro Cultural Center beginning May 7.

The Neighborhood Arts: Next Up program will pair professional artists with creative youth to come up with digital designs for bus shelters in the city.

Art pieces selected through the program will be displayed in the executive offices and hallways of the Melvin Municipal Office Building.

Fifteen local nonprofits were awarded the money to help support their creative programming.

A new mural was recently unveiled in Greensboro to recognize the role Indigenous people have in the area. It’s a collaborative project led by a Native American artist whose family, like dozens of others, originally migrated in the 1960s to the region.