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Arts & Culture We Definitely Want To Start With Home First: Charlotte Showcase Highlights Black Women Artists Dashiell Coleman BLKMRKTCLTs Nu Growth exhibition will highlight the works of six Charlotte-area Black women artists with pop-up showcases at its Camp North End gallery over the next month. Arts & Culture Durag Fest Founder Has Dreams Of Bigger Future For Juneteenth Celebration Of Black Culture Jodie Valade Charlotte’s Durag Fest is back. The annual event that began in 2018 celebrates Black fashion and culture on Juneteenth. This year’s festival will be at multiple locations, but the event’s founder says it’s been difficult to secure sponsorship a year after so many companies vowed to support Black-owned businesses and creatives. Listen • 4:03 Arts & Culture Mint Museums It Takes A Village Highlights Charlotte Arts Collectives Dashiell Coleman A new exhibition at Mint Museum Randolph showcases the works of 25 different artists representing three different Charlotte art collectives, BLKMRKT, Brand the Moth and Goodyear Arts. Arts & Culture The Time Is Finally Right For Black Artists To Capitalize On Opportunities Jodie Valade Artist Dammit Wesley and his business partner, Will Jenkins, are embracing the opportunity they now have to show the Charlotte art world that creators can look just like them: Black men who are successful entrepreneurs and see the world differently than their white counterparts.

Arts & Culture 'We Definitely Want To Start With Home First': Charlotte Showcase Highlights Black Women Artists Dashiell Coleman BLKMRKTCLT's "Nu Growth" exhibition will highlight the works


of six Charlotte-area Black women artists with pop-up showcases at its Camp North End gallery over the next month. Arts & Culture Durag Fest Founder Has Dreams Of Bigger Future For


Juneteenth Celebration Of Black Culture Jodie Valade Charlotte’s Durag Fest is back. The annual event that began in 2018 celebrates Black fashion and culture on Juneteenth. This year’s


festival will be at multiple locations, but the event’s founder says it’s been difficult to secure sponsorship a year after so many companies vowed to support Black-owned businesses and


creatives. Listen • 4:03 Arts & Culture Mint Museum's 'It Takes A Village' Highlights Charlotte Arts Collectives Dashiell Coleman A new exhibition at Mint Museum Randolph showcases the works


of 25 different artists representing three different Charlotte art collectives, BLKMRKT, Brand the Moth and Goodyear Arts. Arts & Culture 'The Time Is Finally Right' For Black Artists To


Capitalize On Opportunities Jodie Valade Artist Dammit Wesley and his business partner, Will Jenkins, are embracing the opportunity they now have to show the Charlotte art world that


creators can look just like them: Black men who are successful entrepreneurs and see the world differently than their white counterparts.