ArtsCenter executive director Jenny Schultz-Thomas is ebullient as she ticks off a number of upgrades on a walk-through of the company’s new digs prior to its grand opening this weekend. The $4 million, 17,000-square-foot home, one block off the intersection of Main and Weaver Streets in downtown Carrboro, has accommodations for previously cramped ceramics classes, in rooms whose floor-to-ceiling windows bring in the green of neighboring forest space.
Digital lab and maker spaces are adjacent to a youth center, with arts instruction now for middle and high school students as well as the younger grades the ArtsCenter has traditionally served. A group of gallery spaces, alongside a casual courtyard merch and coffee shop, will let neighbors pop in for a drink and check out the wares of the artists working here.
But one of the things Schultz-Thomas is proudest of is the natural…
