Welcome to the web and blog site for cultural activist Art Menius. I’ll be post new writings, links to interesting stuff, and old articles from my archive here.

You can hear podcasts of complete The ArtSpot programs by date and guest at
http://www.chapelboro.com/pages/9680071.php 

For information about my consulting and management services for events and organizations, please click here.

You can also visit:

http://snip.it/users/3958
for a regularly updated collection of articles, media, and webpages that interest me grouped by topic.

lazyfarmboy.blogspot.com for playlists from “From the Roots,” which I host the first Saturday of each month on WMMT-FM 88.7, Whitesburg, KY, streaming live at http://www.wmmtfm.org

My Facebook at www.facebook.com/art.menius

My Flickr site at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artmenius/

You can find the index to my papers in the Southern Folklife Collection here.

About Art Menius

You can read an August 2010 interview with Art Menius here.

On April 10, 2012 I returned home to central North Carolina as Executive Director of The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC, the cultural centerpiece of one of the most  vibrant and progressive communities in America.

Art Menius received both the B.A. (with honors) and M.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Art is married to bluegrass DJ and photographer Becky Johnson, author of Inside Bluegrass. Following three and one-half years as an Interpretations Specialist for research at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Menius entered the music field as a writer and production assistant for the Nashville Network bluegrass and old-time music series, “Fire on the Mountain.” In September 1983 he began publishing reviews and features about roots music for publications ranging from Bluegrass Unlimited to the [Raleigh] News & Observer. Other adventures along the way have included editing and desktop publishing books for the Forest History Society, promoting a live performance bluegrass radio series on 117 commercial stations, emceeing and stage managing at dozens of music festivals in USA and Canada, and serving as a consultant on the acclaimed film, “High Lonesome.”

During 1985 Menius helped create the International Bluegrass Music Association. Late that year he became the new trade association’s first executive director. Menius returned to IBMA’s Board of Directors for two terms running from 1998 through 2004. He served on the board of directors of the Old-Time Music Group, publishers of the Old-Time Herald, from 1991 thorough 1998, including six years as president. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Folk Alliance International.

In 1990 the North American Folk Music & Dance Alliance elected Menius the President of its first board of directors. In April 1991 he became its first manager, serving in that capacity until June 1996. Following a period as an artistic representative, Menius became Associate Festival Coordinator for MerleFest, the enormous outdoor folk festival presented by Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC. Following a decade there, Menius served as Director of Appalshop, the acclaimed Appalachian media and arts center in Whitesburg, Kentucky from July 2007 until March 2010. On November 2, 2011, Menius completed his work as Director of Development for Common Ground on the Hill.

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