Cultural Arts Outreach

Friends of the Arts gives the office of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Arts and Creative Engagement the opportunity to collaborate with faculty, academic departments and Charlotte arts presenters to enrich arts opportunities for our members and the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ community.

Member Generosity

Through the generous support of our members, we:

  • Create programs, and collaborate with faculty in the visual, performing and literary arts to ensure strong and vibrant arts offerings at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
  • Provide program funding to the Art, Theatre, Dance, Music, English, Film and Media Studies Departments
  • Provide creative and collaborative program grants for students, faculty and staff
  • Support groundbreaking innovative programs, including the Mural Panel Project by Makayla Binter ‘20, the Outsiders Monologue, the Disorientation Tour, and Watson Walls.
  • Facilitate Art Cart Outreach through the Ada Jenkins after school program. Arts Fellows work in partnership with the education staff to develop educational arts activities and programs for their students.
  • Collaborate with the Town of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ to support programs that include April is for Arts, Art on the Green, and the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Public Art Commission.

Collaborations and Outreach

  • Auguste Rodin: Truth, Form, Life, reception with the Art Department
  • DBAN and FOTA Reception for the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem, NC
  • Urban Bush Women reception with the Smith Artist Series in celebration of Dance at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
  • Chick Corea reception with the Music Department
  • Cabaret reception with the Theatre Department
  • Delfeayo Marsalis reception with the Music Department
  • Guys and Dolls reception in celebration of 50 years of theatre at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
  • Violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain teaches master classes at Northwest School of the Arts and Ada Jenkins
  • Cultural Arts programs at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Elementary School
  • Romare Bearden 100th Birthday celebration collaboration with the Mint Museum of Art
  • Jersey Boys with the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
  • Herb Jackson's exhibition Veronica's Veils–A Retrospective Friends of the Arts reception with the McColl Center for Visual Arts
  • Side-by-side performances with the Charlotte Symphony and ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

For more information, please email Sherry Nelson, director of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Arts and Creative Engagement, at shnelson@davidson.edu or call 704-894-2101.