Greensboro Artist Residency Welcomes Musician, Filmmaker Andy Eversole This Spring

Andy Eversole has carried a banjo to China and Peru, documenting collaborations with local traditional musicians along the way. Now Creative Greensboro is giving the Guilford County artist seven weeks to turn that same exploratory energy inward, working in front of the community that has followed his career since his days at Guilford College.

Eversole began his stay April 7 as the newest participant in GROW, the Greensboro Residency for Original Works. The program, managed by Creative Greensboro, the City's arts and culture office, places local and regionally-based artists at the Greensboro Cultural Center for sustained creative periods. His residency runs through May 26. Creative Greensboro announced the selection on April 6.

The City's announcement highlighted Eversole's dual identity as both musician and documentary filmmaker. His Banjo Earth project, which he launched more than eight years ago, frames that dual role clearly: with each installment, he travels to a different country to collaborate with folk musicians and document the cultural exchange on film. A Guilford College graduate from the class of 2002, Eversole has anchored the project around a single tagline: "Peace through Music. Community through Creation."

GROW, established in 2020, gives selected artists no-cost access to an 800-square-foot studio just inside the Davie Street entrance of the Greensboro Cultural Center. The program is built around public engagement, and residents can expect performances, workshops and open-studio opportunities during Eversole's tenure, though specific event dates had not been posted as of Tuesday. Community members can monitor Creative Greensboro's calendar for scheduling as the spring program fills in.

The residency is part of a broader municipal arts strategy that also includes public-art installations along the Downtown Greenway and recurring cultural programming designed to drive foot traffic to downtown venues, restaurants and retailers. Previous GROW residencies have served as anchors for neighborhood cultural nights and given smaller arts organizations a foothold for expanding their audiences through co-programming.

For Eversole, who has spent years testing new musical and documentary material across four continents, the Cultural Center studio offers something different: a chance to build that work in front of Greensboro, where the collaboration started.