Why Invest in the Hillsborough Arts Council?

Because supporting the arts IS supporting community!

To become an Annual or Monthly Sustainer online, please click the desired button below, and submit your information through our Donor Platform.

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Become a HAC Sustainer:

MONTHLY

ANNUALLY

For Annual Sustainers only - If you'd prefer to pay by check and avoid transaction fees, please select the "Check" option under "Pay another way", and mail check payment to:

Hillsborough Arts Council

ATTN: HAC SPONSORSHIP

102 N Churton Street

Hillsborough, NC 27278

Sustainer Levels & Benefits:

ADVOCATE
$15+/MO
$180+/YR

Limited-edition HAC sticker & t-shirt
Special opportunities to engage with local artists
Optional listing on Our Supporters webpage
Invitations to Sustainer Social Events

Advocate-tier reward sticker, picturing a colorful collage of artwork and people with text saying "Art, culture, community."

BECOME AN ADVOCATE

AMBASSADOR
$25+/MO
$300+/YR

Limited-edition HAC sticker & t-shirt
Optional listing on Our Supporters webpage
Special opportunities to engage with local artists
Discount on ticketed HAC workshops
Invitations to Sustainer Social Events

Ambassador-tier reward t-shirts (one blue and one gray) with a line drawing of the Old Courthouse clock tower and "Hillsborough Arts Council" text.

BECOME AN AMBASSADOR

PHILANTHROPIST
$50+/MO
$600+/YR

Limited-edition HAC sticker, t-shirt, & tote bag
Recognition on Our Supporters webpages
Special opportunities to engage with local artists
Free access to community workshops
Invitations to Sustainer Social Events

Philanthropist-tier reward graphic of exclusive member-access webpages.

BECOME AN PHILANTHROPIST

LEGACY BUILDER
$100+/MO
$1200+/YR

Limited-edition HAC sticker, t-shirt, & tote bag

Recognition on Our Supporters webpages
Special opportunities to engage with local artists
Free access to community workshops
Invitations to Sustainer Social Events
Exclusive community recognition

Legacy Builder-tier rewards of free workshop tickets and a Handmade Parade tote.

BECOME A LEGACY BUILDER

Want to help sustain the arts in Hillsborough but don't want to make a monthly or annual investment? Click here to see more Ways to Give.

Your Support Makes Possible:

MARCH - NOVEMBER

FREE, monthly events, celebrating Art, Culture, & Community in Hillsborough, NC!

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Teenagers hang out at the Last Fridays Community Corner on the Old Courthouse Lawn.

HAC staff and Last Fridays volunteers gather for a group photo on the Old Courthouse lawn.

Youth Dance instructs a group with fitness-inspired choreography on the Old Courthouse Lawn.

Living Arts Collective energetically perform in a drum circle in River Park.

People mingle and observe art at the Thomas Stevens Gallery along the Art Walk.

Two female musicians happily chat while holding violins.

Tents with local vendors setting up for the Makers Market on the Old Courthouse lawn.

A child in monster face paint poses mid-growl at the Last Fridays Makers Market.

Hillsborough firefighters gather in front of a firetruck.

Group circles on Margaret Lane Gallery lawn to listen to music, a metal spider sculpture in view.

Musicians perform under a blue tent at Last Fridays.

A male guitarist performs under a blue tent at Last Fridays.

People walk down King Street along the Art Walk path.

Halloween trick-or-treaters walk by HAC Gallery & Gift Shop during Last Fridays.

Many observe small frames of art along the gray walls of Skylight Gallery during the Art Walk.

A woman demonstrating lino printing with a block of floral designs surrounding a bright blue bird.

Jazz musicians perform in the Thomas Stevens Gallery's Suite 42, paintings lining the back walls.

Stained glass vendors chat with customers at the Last Fridays Makers Market.

A Makers Market vendor selling NC t-shirts smiles at patrons.

Many sit outside the Colonial Inn, listening to the Roaming Poets.

Three people move their arms as they participate in the Living Arts Collective Dancewave.

Many sit outside the Colonial Inn, listening to a band perform.

Living Art Collective's drum circle in River Park, shrouded in golden light as the sun sets.

Jen, host of the Roaming Poets, performing live poetry on the Yonder Bar stage.

A woman explores a vendor's artwork in the Makers Market on a bright spring day.

A group of women gather around in River Park as a part of Last Fridays.

ArtCycle's white supply drop-off tent on the Old Courthouse lawn.

Community craft table, with both kids and adults, outside Margaret Lane Gallery.

Musicians perform as an artist paints live outside Hillsborough's Police Station.

A group of men perform under a white tent outside Margaret Lane Gallery.

People browse the Makers Market on Halloween, some dressed up.

A skeleton with a paint brush sits outside the Thomas Stevens Gallery on Halloween.

Thomas Stevens dressed in a wizard hat for Halloween in Hillsborough.

Two people, one dressed as a medieval knight, gather along the Art Walk for Halloween.

A family with several costumed trick-or-treaters walking down Hillsborough's sidewalk.

Costumed families cross King Street during Halloween in Hillsborough.

A family with several costumed trick-or-treaters passing by the Skylight Gallery along the Art Walk.

A Día de los Muertos model painted as a skeleton surrounded by Aztec dancers in colorful costumes.

Drummers standing during the evening of Last Fridays, string lights glowing in the background.

Monica Meyers' Día de los Muertos window display, featuring a live model painted as a skeleton.

Two musicians perform with pink lighting at night during Last Fridays.

Solstice Lantern Walk

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Child looking up into a lantern hanging from a twig, the orange light reflecting off her face.

People carrying their lanterns and walking around the meditative Spiral of Light.

Hundreds of Solstice walkers along the Riverwalk at night, their lanterns leaving light trails.

Aerial view of Solstice walkers along the Riverwalk at night, their lanterns leaving light trails.

Participants gathering around the Farmers' Market Pavilion for the Solstice Lantern Walk.

A large crowd gathering around the Farmers' Market Pavilion for the Solstice Lantern Walk.

Hillsborough Arts Council volunteers in safety vests huddle around an info booth.

Two HAC volunteers, dressed in winter decor and string lights, pose on the Riverwalk bridge.

A family dressed with illuminated butterfly wings on their backs and string lights.

Solstice walkers at night, their lanterns leaving light trails reflecting in the river.

A man dressed in a white paper mache mouse mask holds a large white and blue cat-head lantern.

Participants walking along the Spiral of Light, their lanterns leaving yellow swirling light trails.

The Lagomorph Quartet performs with string instruments at the Solstice Market under a white tent.

1, 2, 3 Puppetry's Moon Man Puppet with extended string light arms takes its place in the line.

Participants walk with lanterns around a house-like stick sculpture in River Park.

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Executive Director Heather Tatreau sits with HAC volunteers at a Handmade Market tent.

Group sets up a green reptile puppet in River Park.

Aerial view of the Handmade Market, the white tents looking small amongst the green trees.

Groups of three carry large puppets (a bat, and eye, and the sun) down Churton Street.

Aerial view of the Handmade Parade turning off Churton Street as a crowd watches.

Woman on stilts waves her fabric blue butterfly wings into the air, as if to take flight.

Aerial view of hundreds of people preparing for the Handmade Parade in River Park.

Group of female drummers in red uniforms laugh as they huddle together.

A man holding a 10-foot tall yellow puppet on his shoulders on the Handmade Parade, looking down.

African dancers in green clap to the beat as they walk by parade onlookers.

Four people dressed as 1960s hippies in rainbow attire pose with peace signs.

Four drummers play while a tall while goat puppet dances above them.

Groups of drummers in red uniforms parade down Churton Street.

A gopher puppet surrounded by black umbrellas painted with red poppy flowers.

A tall orange dragon puppet, operated by two men, walking down Churton Street in Handmade Parade.

HAC GALLERY & GIFT SHOP

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Speckled ceramic plate ($89), mini pitcher ($25), and salt & pepper shakers on a fall tablecloth.

HAC Gallery & Gift Shop exterior window.

White decorative plates with painted floral designs and painted Christmas ornaments on a wood shelf.

HAC Gallery & Gift Shop winter window display with hanging lights, paper stars, and fake snow.

Assorted necklaces and earrings available in the gift shop.

HAC Gift Shop interior with shelves full of eclectic handmade items (pottery, textiles, and decor).

Stylized metal sculpture of an orange, curly-haired little boy holding a blue bird.

Father with daughter on his shoulders gaze into the warm HAC Gallery window.

Postcards of Elaine O'Neil's textile compositions. Left one features a river through a forest.

Large wooden spinning tops, a rack of carved pens, and other handmade wooden utensils.

Did you know…

The Hillsborough Arts Council generates over $80,000 in income each year to 55+ artists in our local community.
Through the Gallery & Gift Shop, we’re able to nurture and support emerging artists in nearly every medium.
We welcome over 12,000 guests annually to explore and shop more than 2,000 unique artworks for sale in our prime location in downtown Hillsborough, NC.
Plus, HAC serves as a tourist destination for many first-time visitors, advocating for the other galleries, boutiques, music venues, restaurants, events, and arts partners that surround our Gallery & Gift Shop.

A lot of impact for only 1,200 square feet!

And we’re not done growing. Our vision is to expand our representation of the Hillsborough community as a flourishing artists haven, a safe space for creativity, and a welcoming home for ALL!

Become A HAC Sustainer:

To become an Annual or Monthly Sustainer online, please click the desired button below, and submit your information through our Donor Platform.

This will provide an option to pay online via GiveButter. If making payment online, GiveButter transaction fees will apply. There will also be an option to tip GiveButter. If you'd prefer to opt out of tipping the donor platform, please manually set the tip amount to 0%.

MONTHLY

ANNUALLY

For Annual Sustainers only - If you'd prefer to pay by check and avoid transaction fees, please select the "Check" option under "Pay another way", and mail check payment to:

Hillsborough Arts Council

ATTN: HAC SPONSORSHIP

102 N Churton Street

Hillsborough, NC 27278

Want to help sustain the arts in Hillsborough but don't want to make a monthly or annual committment? Click here to see more Ways to Give.

The Hillsborough Arts Council is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214. The license is not an endorsement by the State.