Diamante Arts & Cultural Center

03/07/2025

Diamante Arts & Cultural Center (DACC) is now accepting submissions for the Bara Bara Community Art Exhibition! "Bara Bara" comes from "barato" (affordable), and this exciting salon-style show is one of DACC’s largest annual fundraisers supporting arts and cultural programming.

🔗Apply in the following link: https://airtable.com/appBmBMBhFKRpBF48/shrJApP74aDzWqgjD

🔎What We’re Looking For:
✔2D artwork & jewelry
✔No prints or reproductions will be accepted.
✔Up to 5 original pieces per artist (not all may be accepted)
✔Max size: 16” x 20”
✔Max value per piece: $500

🚨Important Requirements:

· All hanging pieces must be wired for display.

· Non-wired pieces will incur a $25 wiring fee per piece.

· Frames are optional; it is not necessary to bring the artwork framed.

📆Key Dates:

✅Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025

✅Artwork Drop-Off:

· April 14 – 17 | 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM

· April 18 | 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM

🎉Opening Reception:

· Friday, April 25, 2025 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM

· We encourage all artists to attend!

🎨Exhibition Dates:

· April 18 – May 2, 2025

✅Pick-Up for Unsold Artwork:

· May 3, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ONLY during this time)

❓Questions?
☎ (919) 852-0075
✉ [email protected]
📍DACC Gallery | 5104 Western Blvd., Raleigh, NC

03/05/2025

03/05/2025

¡Únete a nuestras clases de Zumba en Diamante Arts & Cultural Center! 💃🎶 ¡Baila, diviértete y mantente en forma con nosotros! Regístrate directamente aquí 👉 https://forms.gle/19n18b9ZwJVDMFHf8 o envía un DM si tienes preguntas. ¡Nos vemos en la pista! 🔥✨

03/04/2025

Diamante Arts and Cultural Center is pleased to announce "Border Paintings", a solo exhibition of recent work by Mexican American painter, Karen Rose, on view through April 11, 2025.

Landscapes are regarded as repositories of the beautiful and idyllic, often with desires for ourselves as occupying a state of ecological balance and harmony. Rose moves from these conventions, unravelling the many layers the landscape hides and makes apparent uncomfortable truths about our place in the world.

Our lives are lived on landscapes, and on them we record in our personal and collective histories. These works are a view into conflicts, deeply rooted in violence, greed and politics. Upon these landscapes, borders are drawn resulting in peoples’ lives changed or ended, where the absence of diplomacy and constancy of war, scar these otherwise harmless views in front of us.

Rose travels to these places and also takes them directly from film stills and news media, where she uncovers that the landscapes that are suggested as Mexico are in fact Spain, or, the paths we want to follow are the site of befallen mortar shell attacks in the Ukraine.

In her pursuit of her constructed and reimagined landscapes, Rose reminds us that we may also find peace in the landscape. She did just that in the series about the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

In a rapidly changing chaotic world, where environments are transforming into uncertain future ecological purgatories, where fictional stories can be seen in a movie or where the destruction of human life and culture are constant, the artist reminds us that we can still make art out of our worst predicaments.

🕒 Tuesday - Friday, 10:30-4:30pm

Visit the online store for this exhibition: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/dacc-gallery-karen-rose-online-store

Exhibition made possible with support from:
Raleigh Arts
North Carolina Arts Council
Triangle Community Foundation
First Citizen Bank

Peter Marin Artworks Karen Rose

02/25/2025

DACC presents, Border Paintings, a solo exhibition by Karen Rose, a Mexican-American painter, who explores political, personal and cultural narratives she identifies embedded in the landscapes she paints.

Rose's process varies and draws from Western movies as source, where Iberic landscapes were used to represent México in movies and from landscapes that have deep personal meanings for her.

Please join us for a reception:

📅 Friday, Feb. 28
🕕 6-9pm
📍Diamante Arts & Cultural Center: 5104 Western Blvd. Raleigh, NC - 27606

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Peter Marin Artworks
Raleigh Arts
North Carolina Arts Council
Triangle Community Foundation

02/15/2025

For the Love of Art Raffle Winner Announcement. Please take out your tickets.
18 grand prize
24 food Lion
60 Cheesecake
100 Cheesecake
129 dinner and movie

We will follow up with you during the week to arrange for your prize pick up.

02/06/2025

¡Únete a nuestras clases de Zumba en Diamante Arts & Cultural Center! 💃🎶 ¡Baila, diviértete y mantente en forma con nosotros! Regístrate directamente aquí 👉 https://forms.gle/19n18b9ZwJVDMFHf8 o envía un DM LoreTrocel si tienes preguntas. ¡Nos vemos en la pista! 🔥✨

02/06/2025

🚨APPLICATIONS DEADLINE EXTENSION🚨
March 1st, 2025

To apply, visit: https://bit.ly/4ez1fzF
For more info, contact us: 919-852 0075 or [email protected]. Diamante Arts and Cultural Center offers the Diamante Arts Leadership Institute (DALI), a year-long program in arts capacity building and leadership development that delivers innovative, and practical strategies that lead to successful engagement practices in the arts. Modeled in part after the NALAC Leadership Institute and revised to meet the needs of Latino/Hispanic arts professionals in North Carolina. DALI provides a dynamic learning environment that cultivates a familiar, inclusive cultural space that provides artists, arts managers, and cultural promoters the support and knowledge to prepare creative, strategic, and nimble cultural leaders.

🚨EXTENDEMOS LA FECHA LIMITE PARA APLICACIONES🚨
01 de Marzo, 2025

El Diamante Arts Leadership Institute (DALI) es un programa de un año de duración sobre gestión de las artes y desarrollo de liderazgo que ofrece estrategias innovadoras y prácticas que conducen a prácticas comerciales exitosas en las artes. El entorno de aprendizaje dinámico cultiva un espacio cultural familiar e inclusivo que brinda a varias generaciones de artistas latinos, gerentes de arte y promotores culturales el apoyo, el conocimiento y la agencia para responder con confianza e iniciar soluciones a preguntas culturales complejas. No hay cuota de inscripción.

02/05/2025

Please join us for an artist roundtable discussing the work, process and ideas in each of the artists’ work and how they lend to “Modernism Redux” curated by our 2025 Community Highlight Curator in Residence recipient, Sterling Bowen, featuring the work of:

Derrick Beasley
Jane Cheek
Adam Cohen
Erin Fei
Tina Marcus
Anna Payne
Jaclyn Sanders
Marriot Sheldon
Michelle Wilkie
Be Boggs
Slater Mapp

With Modernism Redux, Bowen “invites reflection on how contemporary art practices echo the ethos of Modernism, questioning tradition and exploring individual sensibility. It asks viewers to consider how can this legacy of innovation help us navigate world defined by rapid technological and social transformation, and what does it mean to create art in the spirit of Modernists, today?”

“Modernism Redux” is the inaugural exhibition from our newest program, “Community Highlight Curatorial Arts Residency” a project featuring emerging curators from our arts community who are not Latino. Our mission is to support the professional development of artists. We endeavor to ensure opportunities are available to curate and exhibit to anyone in our arts community. Supporting the arts community benefits us all.

🗓 Modernism Redux: Artist talk and reception

Feb 8, 12-3, 2025

Diamante Arts & Cultural Center 5104 Western Blvd., Suite B, Raleigh, NC

This exhibition is made possible with support from and and First Citizens bank

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Peter Marin Artworks

02/04/2025

10 DAYS LEFT TO GET YOUR TICKET

Don’t miss your chance to win an unforgettable getaway! 💘 Support Diamante Arts & Cultural Center and enter our Valentine’s Day raffle for a shot at the Grand Prize:

🏖️ 3-night stay for two in San Juan, PR
✈️ $850 airline voucher

Plan your trip to coincide with Bad Bunny’s residency in Puerto Rico and make it a once-in-a-lifetime experience! 🎶🔥

🎟️ Tickets: $25 each
🗓️ Last Day to Purchase: February 14, 2025
📌 Get your tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/diamante-valentines-raffle--2025

Every ticket supports the arts in our community. Let’s make an impact together! 💕

01/24/2025

Join us for an unforgettable cultural experience!

The North Carolina Opera presents Florencia en el Amazonas, the company’s first-ever Spanish-language opera, inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism. Witness this masterpiece on:
📅 Friday, January 31, 2025, at 7:30 PM
📅 Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 2:00 PM
📍 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts.

As part of this event, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center will host a special art exhibit showcasing works by local artists, inspired by the opera’s themes, music, and the lush beauty of the Amazon. Explore the intersection of visual and performing arts in the lobby before the performances!

🎟️ Tickets start at just $25! Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate Latin American culture and creativity.

🔗 Visit ncopera.org for tickets and details.
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¡Únete a una experiencia cultural inolvidable!

La North Carolina Opera presenta Florencia en el Amazonas, su primera ópera en español, inspirada en el realismo mágico de Gabriel García Márquez. Disfruta de esta obra maestra en:
📅 Viernes, 31 de enero de 2025, a las 7:30 PM
📅 Domingo, 2 de febrero de 2025, a las 2:00 PM
📍 Raleigh Memorial Auditorium en el Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts.

Como parte de este evento, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center presentará una exhibición especial de arte con obras de artistas locales inspiradas en los temas, la música y la belleza del Amazonas. ¡Explora esta conexión entre las artes visuales y escénicas en el vestíbulo antes de las funciones!

🎟️ ¡Boletos desde $25! No te pierdas esta oportunidad de celebrar la cultura y creatividad latinoamericana.

🔗 Visita ncopera.org para boletos y más información.

Habrá atención en español en las taquillas del teatro para las personas que si lo requieran.

01/23/2025

Experience art like never before!
The exhibitions Modernism Redux, curated by Sterling Bowen, and Seen and Felt, curated by Peter Marin, are on view now at Diamante Arts & Cultural Center. Dive into a world of colors, textures, and emotions that redefine creativity.

🗓️ Come visit and discover the incredible talent inspiring our community.
📍 Don’t miss it!

This exhibition is made possible with support from and and First Citizens Bank.

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01/22/2025

🌴❤️ Fall in Love with Art—and Win Big This Valentine’s! ❤️🌴

Diamante Arts & Cultural Center invites you to enter the For the Love of Art Valentine’s Raffle for a chance to win amazing prizes while supporting Latino arts and culture! 🎨✨

🌟 Grand Prize:
🏖️ A 3-night stay in sunny San Juan, Puerto Rico at the luxurious Beachfront Elegance apartment.
✈️ An airfare voucher to make your travel a breeze.
🎟️ Two tickets to the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico—immerse yourself in culture!

🎁 Other Prizes Include:
🍴 A $100 Food Lion gift card.
🍰 Two $50 The Cheesecake Factory gift cards for a sweet treat.
🎬 A Dinner & Movie Pack for the perfect night out.

💌 Why Enter?
Every ticket purchased supports Latino artists and cultural programs that enrich our community. Together, we can celebrate and preserve the beauty of art!

🎟️ Tickets are just $25! Get yours now until 2/14/25
👉 Purchase Here:
https://bit.ly/DACC-Valentines2025

💃 Don’t miss your chance to win these unforgettable prizes. Enter today and share the love of art this Valentine’s season!

01/18/2025

11 artista are participating in the exhibition “Modernism Redux” at our Main Gallery.

01/18/2025

Inaugurada la exhibición “Modernism Redux”

The exhibition “Modernism Redux” is open.

It will be open until February, 21st.