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8 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Tarish Pipkins <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Tarish Pipkins <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 110 Autumn Lane <br /> Chapel Hill NC 27516 <br /> Phone (Day): 919.923.1728 <br /> Phone (Evening): 919.923.1728 <br /> Phone (Cell): 919.923.1728 <br /> Email: jeghetto @gmail.com <br /> Place of Employment: Self Employed <br /> Job Title: Artist / Puppeteer <br /> Year of OC Residence: 2005 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: ETJ - Chapel Hill <br /> Sex: Male <br /> Ethnic Background: African American <br /> Community Activities/Organizational Memberships: <br /> Director of the BLACKSPACE Teen Center in Chapel Hill, NC <br /> Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br /> I have not served on any boards as of yet. <br /> Boards/Commissions applied for: <br /> Arts Commission <br /> Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br /> I am a self taught artist originally from Pittsburgh, PA. I relocated to this area in 2005. I am an <br /> African American artist from the inner city who does street performances throughout the Triangle <br /> area. I taught at a private alternative school for children with special needs for the past 6 years. I <br /> am the Director of a teen center in downtown Chapel Hill. I have been a professional artist for 25 <br /> years. I have been building and performing with puppets for the last 15 of those years. I have an <br /> extreme passion for my art and love sharing my passion with the world. <br /> During my art career I have collaborated with many artists over the years. I was also a member <br /> of an artist collective who received many grants to perform in venues all over the city of <br /> Pittsburgh, PA. Being a self taught artist, I understand the day to day struggles that artists go <br /> through from creating their art, to promoting and trying to make a living off of it. <br /> I ve also used my art as a means to communicate and educate children with special needs in <br /> the area. I also see myself as a role model to young people of color in my community. I expose <br /> them to the art form of puppetry which is rarely seen being performed by Black people in this <br /> country. I believe in defying stereotypes. I do this everyday through my art. <br /> JEGHETTO.com is my website. <br /> Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br /> I believe that I can connect the board to artists of color in Orange County and expose them to <br /> resources that will help them evolve as Artists. <br />