Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
professionals who award grants twice a year—and will now <br /> have the flexibility of ineeting at the visitors bureau <br /> conference facilities after-hours. <br /> The physical space of the visitor's bureau lends itself well to <br /> an arts commission. In addition to available office space,the <br /> facility is filled with materials from local artists, including <br /> sculptures, books, pottery, pastel art and textile design—all <br /> from local artists. These works of art are hugely popular with <br /> visitors. <br /> The visitor's bureau has worked hand-in-hand with local arts <br /> initiatives. They have created ads, brochures and news <br /> articles about Orange County artists. They have <br /> commissioned local authors to write stories about Orange <br /> County. The visitor's bureau helped to provide early <br /> marketing assistance to FRANK,the arts collective on <br /> Franklin Street that met at the visitor's bureau 12-months prior <br /> to its opening. • <br /> The Visitors Bureau takes an active role in area heritage <br /> projects under consideration, literary festivals,and performing <br /> arts promotions. The Bureau takes travel agents,travei <br /> writers and meeting planners to the Orange County Historical <br /> Museum, Burwell School, Chapel Hill Museum,Ackland and <br /> other arts' resources in the area in order to sell them on <br /> btinging business to Orange County. <br /> The united visitors bureau and arts commission will focus on <br /> combining arts and crafts, music and other diverse cultural <br /> activities and blending these with history based activities in , <br /> Orange County in order to position Orange County as a hot- ' <br /> bed of creativity. <br /> The historic background of Orange County,the natural setting <br /> of the area's uni ue lace in histo and its investment in the <br /> � <br /> w <br />