Tommy Noonan, the co-director of the Saxapahaw-based Culture Mill, on why we should stop treating art like goods and services.
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Articulating Value Upends Comforting Assumptions About the Worth of Art Labor, the Meaning of Professional, and the Local Scene’s Diversity
On September 23 at Durham’s Living Arts Collective, the Saxapahaw arts nonprofit Culture Mill produced a symposium called Articulating Value in the Arts. Funded by a Biddle Foundation grant, it was the result of a yearlong conversation among Triangle artists and art professionals about the relationship between art and value. Culture Mill codirector Tommy Noonan’s […]
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Dance review: This American Life meets dance-theater in a worthy experiment at ADF
Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Saturday, July 18 As the lights dim at DPAC, the disembodied voices of radio host Ira Glass and choreographer Monica Bill Barnes ponder how to begin: with an idea or with movement? “Perhaps the idea is movement,” Glass suggests. The lights come back […]