In the HAC Gallery

In addition work from 65+ local artists, HAC's Gallery & Gift Shop exhibits art work from emerging and historically unrepresented local artists through its Gallery program. The Gallery & Gift Shop hosts pop-up events, demonstrations, receptions, and artist talks during Last Fridays & the Art Walk and beyond. Read on to learn about the exhibition currently in the HAC Gallery.

Your Hands, Your Mark

Community-Donated Art Exhibition

Your Hands, Your Mark is a community-donated art exhibition featuring work contributed to and activities engaged with HAC throughout the year. Weaving on the Community Loom, participation at the Last Fridays or HAC Gallery Creation Stations, and other local art-making projects surrounding the Hillsborough Arts Council culminated in this show.

Thank you to all who contributed! Your additions might have felt small, but together, they grew into something beautiful!

Featuring:

HAC's Community Loom

From April to August 2025, HAC's Community Loom became a staple of Last Fridays on the Old Orange County Courthouse Lawn. We invited everyone to learn about traditional weaving by taking a piece of upcycled fabric and threading it through our giant loom's system of warps. Together, one by one, we created our own textile, now finished and on display!

Scroll through the photos to see it grow! ->

Community Loom

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Community Micrography Portrait

As part of the HAC Gallery exhibition Soundscape, from April 22 - June 22, 2025, we invited visitors to be inspired by CJ Monét's musical micrography and add their mark to a blank portrait!

Micrography is the art of using words to create an image. Whether it was meaningful song lyrics or just a friendly message, many contributed to fill this unique portrait of our community!

What lights you up? Community Canvas

"What lights you up?" That's the question Hillsborough's Poet Laureate, Amal Kassir, asked those stopping by the HAC Creation Station during June 2025's Last Fridays. What sparks your joy? What inspires you? What motivates you? Any interpretation of the question was welcome.

Your responses were placed around a heart on a canvas to radiate words of hope and happiness, together creating a visual poem. This work, now complete with a hand-woven heart in the center, is on display for all to read the poetry built person-by-person that evening.

Scroll through the photos to see it grow! ->

What lights you up?

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Live Sketching

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HAC Creation Station Sketches

During August and September 2025's Last Fridays, we at the HAC Creation Station invited everyone to live sketch on the lawn!

Whether it was The Shoaldiggers in August or the Live Model Drawing Instructional plus Fashion Show in September, all were encouraged to borrow some markers and paper to draw anything around them.

Included in this exhibition are some of those drawings. Stop by to see your donated work!

PLUS the Ladies Night Out Collage, an HAC-inspired painted leather jacket donated by Jen Stone Design, photography, and more!