Artist Directory

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative

Actor - Director - Filmmaker - Musician - Poet - Visual Artist - Writer

Join ELSEWHERE ARTIST COLLABORATIVE in building a living art museum and international site for collaborative creativity in downtown Greensboro. Sculpted from a three-story former thrift store housing one woman's immense collection of surplus, thrift, and antiques, Elsewhere's one-of-a-kind museum inspires cultural wonder, tactile insight, and creative conversation. Our interactive arts... More

Evan & Dana

Actor - Composer - Musician - Poet - Singer - Storyteller - Writer

Evan Olson guitar and vocals Dana Bearror upright bass and vocals High energy, quasi-acoustic party music. Straight out of the NC Piedmont. Contact evananddana@gmail.com or 336.407.9404 for booking info. Evan & Dana are available for private parties, weddings and any special event that needs great live entertainment. What do you... More

Karen Dresser

Actor - Poet - Singer - Visual Artist - Writer

KAREN DRESSER is an award-winning artist whose art quilts, ritual garments and banners have been commissioned by individuals and religious institutions around the world. Recent work includes "Sarah, Hagar and Mary" (by Hind Jarrah, founder of the Arab Heritage Society in Dallas, TX); "Mary the Singer" (by the Wake Forest... More

Alfred Harrell

Poet - Writer

I have two sons who are both musicians. I've been a mentor with Community In Schools program at Penn-Griffen Middle School in High Point. I'm also a volunteer bus driver for the marching band at my youngest son's high school. I write poetry and have a blog, aharrel.blogspot.com, where I... More

Alfred Harrell

Poet - Writer

I've been writing poetry since my early teens. I started publishing my poems in blog format in 2007. My two blogs, Verbal Xpression-verbalxpression.blogspot.com(poetry blog) and Black Men Making A Difference-bmmad.blogspot.com which deal social issues give me the opportunity to share my gift of writing. Verbal Xpression has a writing workshop... More

Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney

Poet - Visual Artist - Writer

Background information “She.rocked from the day she was born…” Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney, visual poet, started her artistic journey with coloring books, daydreams and doll houses. The native of New Orleans is a nationally recognized visual artist &poet. In the fall of 2008, Ms. Mooney's vibrant visual poetry will be presenting... More

Josephus III

Poet - Writer

Josephus III has been for writing as long as he can remember, published for the first time in the fourth grade for an essay written about his father. Before he ever knew poetry as a performance art or a career, it was simply an outlet or an easy way to... More

Donalja James

Actor - Musician - Poet - Singer - Storyteller - Writer - Playwright

Rarely does an artist create a piece that is truly transcendent, however the new spoken word CD project “ I See You” from Donalja James is precisely that. Originally born in Chicago to a single mother, Donalja began to truly develop as a writer at the young age of seven.... More

Robert Jeffers

Poet - Visual Artist - Writer

What's good ladies and gents? I'm going to make this short and simple. I'm a 31 year old entreprenuer from Greensboro NC who happens to be the founder and CEO of Lyrics Personals, LLC., a greeting card company that caters mainly to the inner city and urban/suburban youth, as well... More

Billy Jones

Poet - Writer

Billy Jones is a lifetime resident of Greensboro and one of the most widely known poets on the Internet today with thousands of regular readers. His books include CARROT ON A STICK, COLD DRY BISCUITS, THE ADVENTURES OF ARNIE AND JAKE and his soon to be published by Amazon.com title,... More

Joseph Mills

Poet - Writer

Joe Mills grew up in Indiana, and, in the first thirty years of his life, he kept moving farther and farther West, earning literature degrees at the University of Chicago, University of New Mexico, and the University of California, Davis. He spent a year in Bordeaux where he met his... More

Derrick Monk

Director - Graphic Designer - Poet - Storyteller - Visual Artist - Writer

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Derrick J. Monk is a visual Artist/Grassroots Arts Organizer, also leading youth therapeutic art instructor for Community Initiatives. Monk is a professional Art Therapeutic Specialist/Muralist/Sculptor and a proud graduate of Winston-Salem State University. Monk has worked with the Winston-Youth Arts Institute, W-S Griffith Secondary School,... More

Bruce Piephoff

Composer - Musician - Poet - Singer - Writer

Bruce Piephoff is a folk singer/songwriter and poet with 15 CDs of original folk blues material. He has been performing across the U.S. for many years but is a native of Greensboro, NC and continues to live here. He also has a Master of Fine Arts degree from UNC-Gs acclaimed... More

Daniel Skeel

Musician - Poet - Singer

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Khalisa Williams

Actor - Poet - Singer - Storyteller - Writer

Khalisa Williams 24 years of age , born in Gary Indiana. Khalisa has been involved in the arts since she was 6. Acting in school and church plays. Singing in school and church choir. She was formally trained in acting, dancing, and singing from 8-15. Her love for reading lead... More