The Greensboro Cultural Center is a City of Greensboro Office of arts & culture facility, [1] and is home to many arts-related programs in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Greensboro Cultural Center is a City of Greensboro Office of arts & culture facility, [1] and is home to many arts-related programs in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Cultural Center is a four-story building plus a basement and is located at 200 North Davie Street. [2] It houses gallery and exhibition spaces, performance venues, and studio spaces, as well as a privately operated restaurant with outdoor cafe-style seating and an outdoor amphitheater. [3]
Four contemporary visual art galleries are located within the Cultural Center. African American Atelier Inc., [4] Center for Visual Artists, [5] The Guilford Native American Art Gallery, [6] and GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art [7] each have public gallery space on the second floor. Art Alliance hosts art classes and manages a pottery studio on the first floor of the Cultural Center. [8]
Music organizations including Bel Canto Company, [9] Eastern Music Festival, [10] Greensboro Opera, [11] and the Greensboro Symphony [12] are based out of the Cultural Center.
Performing arts organizations located in the Cultural Center include Community Theatre of Greensboro, [13] Dance Project, [14] Greensboro Ballet, [15] and Triad Pride Performing Arts. [16]
The Van Dyke Performance Space, named in honor of Jan Van Dyke, is located on the first floor of the Cultural Center. [17] Greensboro Community Television, [18] ArtsGreensboro, [19] and City Arts [20] are based out of the Cultural Center as well.
Adjacent to the Greensboro Cultural Center is the 4-acre Carolyn & Maurice LeBauer Park. The park contains two cafes, a children's play ground, dog park, putt-putt green, ping-pong tables, and a fountain "splash pad," which is seasonally converted into an ice-skating rink. [21] The park's stage and concert lawn hosts many outdoor gatherings, movie nights, and concerts. A public art installation by Janet Eschelman entitled "Where We Met" is prominently featured above the concert lawn. [22]
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