Artist Directory

ILLPO

Musician - Writer

There are lots of hip-hop groups. But only a few movements. Rarely before in hip hop history has one group succeeded in taking their entire local hip-hop community to a different level of musical ingenuity. Each energetic performance built on the last; ILLPO has rocked local fans, radio, and industry... More

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

Mike J Baron

Composer - Musician - Singer - Writer

Remissionary Mike J Baron is a Connecticut singer/songwriter/guitarist and lay minister living in Kernersville. He's a cancer and stem cell transplant survivor currently in remission and available to perform concerts, special music, share his Christian testimony and preach the gospel. You can request his ministry REFERENCES with an email to... More

Quinn Dalton

Writer

QUINN DALTON is the author of a novel, High Strung, and two short story collections, Bulletproof Girl and Stories from the Afterlife (Press 53, 2007). Her work has been anthologized in Sex and Sensibility, American Girls out on the Town, Glimmer Train's Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection,... 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

Michael Diiorio

Director - Filmmaker - Graphic Designer - Storyteller - Writer

I have been a filmmaker since 1984. I love everything about filmmaking from concept to final edit. Recently I finished my first feature length documentary which won many awards including documentary of the year from Moving Pictures Magazine. If you need a film, commercial, corporate video, music video or television... 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

Robert Fasone

Writer

I am a stay home dad who currently has two book published - A Chase After Wind and Bread Upon the Water (Newest). I am a former NYC Police Officer and worked for American Express for 15 years. I earned an English degree from Brooklyn College. I have been married... More

Faun Finley

Actor - Choreographer - Dancer - Writer

Faun has a 20-year background in dance and live performance and 10 years of teaching experience. She founded SoulFlower Studios and co-founded Studio 318 World Dance Oasis. Faun is also the Artistic Director of two performance groups: LunaSea Belly Dance and LunaSea Cabaret & Burlesque. Her degree, Anthropology of Expressive... More

Aulando Frazier

Actor - Choreographer - Composer - Dancer - Director - Filmmaker - Graphic Designer - Musician - Singer - Visual Artist - Writer

Just Not Famous Enough Publicity is a firm that specializes in giving emerging, on the brink artists and athletes to the forefront of the entertainment industry. We own and operate several entities but most importantly the JNFE::AWARDS.

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

Joshua Hendry

Musician - Visual Artist - Writer

Joshua Hendry is an illustrator and pet portrait artist living in Greensboro, NC. His studio is just 2 minutes from Four Seasons Mall. Josh is gearing up for Parisian Promenade. His current projects include a children's book collaboration with Erik & Charlotte Strom, Web-site development for Steeple Hill Farms, pet... 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

Susan Kirby-Smith

Writer

Susan Kirby-Smith is a writer, of fiction, plays, poetry, screenplays, reviews and creative non-fiction. She is the editorial assistant at The Southern Review and an editorial associate for Cave Wall.

Kristen Leigh

Composer - Musician - Singer - Writer

A singer/songwriter of genuine authenticity, Kristen Leigh's music encompasses nearly every genre with a subtle twang, raw emotion, and an alternative edge. From indie rock to folk to striking ballads, blues and punk, there is no style that Kristen Leigh will not play from the heart. Influenced primarily by traditional... More

Steve Lesser

Actor - Writer

Dr. Steven Lesser has been in over 3000 improv performances starting in 1994. 2003 - present Director Idiot Box Comedy Club, Greensboro, NC 1994 - present Improvisational Comedy Actor The Idiot Box (Greensboro), Comedy Station (Greensboro & Chapel Hill), and ComedySportz (Chapel Hill & Raleigh) 2006 - present Writer, actor... More

Phoenix Mangus

Actor - Director - Filmmaker - Writer - Comedian

Phoenix Mangus is a creative visual artist who works in film, video and on paper. A professional videographer since 1997, Phoenix has experienced many positions in front of and behind the camera including acting, improv, Director of Photography, sound, grip and editing. His unique imagination and endless knowledge of film... 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

Ann Mock

Writer

Hidden Danger, by author, Ann Mock, is a new murder mystery that is a definite must-add to your summer reading list. In her first novel, Mock has masterfully aligned all the elements in this blockbuster novel that will take readers on an enthralling journey through the idyllic coastal landscape of... 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

Foxy Moxy

Actor - Dancer - Director - Singer - Visual Artist - Writer

Foxy Moxy (AKA - Madelyn Greco) is always pleased to put on precariously high heels and add some glamour to the to world of cabaret and burlesque. With “thong planted firmly in cheek”, this burlesque modernist enjoys bringing her audiences back to burlesque's true roots, humor! Ms. Moxy has thrilled... More

Jason Oliver

Musician - Singer - Writer

What is a REVIVAL? Where and when does one begin? Who does it concern? Websters dictionary defines Revival as 1: an act or instance of reviving : the state of being revived: as a: renewed attention to or interest in something b: a new presentation or publication of something old... More

Al Perry

Storyteller - Writer - Workshop Leader

Al Perry is past president of Winston-Salem Writers, a nonprofit organization he founded. A credentialed facilitator of creative writing workshops based on Amherst Writers & Authors (AWA) methods, Al leads Sparks by StoryPartners(tm)programs in the Carolinas. He is co-author of two novels.

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

Mrs. Ardith Shold

Graphic Designer - Musician - Singer - Visual Artist - Writer

I am first of all a (CHRISTIAN)-Evangelist-Minister, then I am a artist/Painter/Photographer etc..., I write songs God gives me and I put music to the songs, I am a painter of that which is true LIGHT, I have no schooling in ART, yet I can also teach art by doing... More