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2017 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Newton, NC Foothills Folk Art Festival in Newton, NC The Foothills Folk Art Festival is a family-friendly event that is produced in partnership between the Downtown Newton Development Association and the Hickory Museum of Art. The festival showcased 91 juried contemporary folk artists from throughout the Southeast showing and selling their work. 3,500 people attended the first event in downtown Newton, which had four food truck

2017 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Elizabeth City, NC SPLASH art event in Elizabeth City, NC The week-long annual art event called SPLASH takes place the first week of November in downtown Elizabeth City. During this week, artists and art lovers from all over converge on the "Harbor of Hospitality" to create, collaborate and cultivate the arts. Each year, there is open studio time for artists to create their works, master classes taught by well-known artists, an

2016 Best Image Building Campaign Rutherfordton, NC Rutherfordton showcases its new "A Minted Original" brand A concerted effort to revitalize Rutherfordton began in 2013 with citizens involved in the town's NC STEP Committee. Arnett Muldrow & Associates helped Rutherfordton develop its new brand, "A Minted Original," which plays off the town's history as the home of the former Bechtler Mint which produced America's first $1 gold coin. The new brand has been used for signage,