Artsplosure's mission is to produce high quality annual festivals that celebrate excellence in the performing and visual arts; to promote and bring recognition to national, regional, and local artists; and to bring artists and the larger community together to improve the quality of life and cultural environment.

New works from Raleigh's Pete Sack will be unveiled 4/1/2011. Open to the public and an "homage to a city that has treated me well".

In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York City loft building with an amazing list of inhabitants-famous jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, he documented an era and rare moments with people such as Thelonious Monk, Zoot Simms, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus and Salvador Dali, presented here in photographs, work prints, videos and audio.