Our Mission: To Promote the Work of Fine & Performing Artists in Local Communities

The Community Arts Café publications and web community was created and developed by Salem Music, LLC owner, Jim Tedder of Winston Salem, NC, and was initiated as a community service to connect individual artists, arts organizations and patrons of the arts. The heart of the venture is to cultivate an environment for sharing in the creative expression of the arts within the local community. The Community Arts Café is an ‘arts community concept,’ that is intended to fill a void that is lacking within most communities; a media outlet dedicated exclusively to the coverage and support of the local arts. Together with his wife, Cathy, they planted the seed of a concept that they have been nurturing to produce a healthy all-inclusive arts community platform which may be reproduced in any community.

The Community Arts Café is the Triad's only media outlet dedicated entirely to the promotion of local artists, musicians, performers and arts organizations. The CAC concept serves as a high quality platform for any fine or performing artist or organization to use, free of charge, to gain exposure in and around their local community. Arts news & information, articles featuring individual artists, performers and organizations, a calendar of local events and happenings, a directory of arts related individuals, businesses and services, and other pertinent community information are included in the content of the publications.

The printed and cyber publications are but a fragment of a larger community vision for an arts facility, “The Community Arts Café,” which, when completed, will offer services for artist development and a live platform for promoting and showcasing the original works of local fine & performing artists in any community.

The first issue of The Community Arts Café magazine, a high quality glossy, free publication, premiered in July of 2006 and steadily grew in popularity throughout the Triad area until December of 2007, when the printed edition was discontinued for financial reasons. The magazine, being funded through advertising sales alone, unlike non-profit organizations, does not receive any other funding as such. The introduction of ‘Triad Arts this Week!,’ a weekly arts events email newsletter, in December 2007 dramatically increased readership throughout the triad with new subscribers being added daily, and development of the website became the focus for the following year. In response to the success of Triad Arts this Week!, a new printed arts news edition similar to the weekly newsletter was introduced in November 2008 and is expected to continue as a monthly, and potentially a weekly edition providing arts news, information and a calendar of events for the arts.

Within the past year, two important business partnerships were created within the Community Arts Café endeavor:

Dave Teachout joined the effort by helping with artist sponsorships and business relations, in addition to aligning his print company, Going Color, with the CAC venture. This partnership now gives the Community Arts Café the ability to provide high quality print services to artists and arts organizations at the best possible rates as an added benefit for the arts community.

Scott Plaster brought another important element to the mix with his web development expertise and his business, Webyoni, which also gives the CAC venture the ability to provide affordable website building and hosting services to the arts community as well. Scott has been an integral part of the development and construction of the new Community Arts Café website that provides the most useful and efficient tools for promoting the arts communities on a large scale.

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This publication will not support artistic expressions that promote hatred, violence, and generally evil or destructive themes against humanity.