Community Art Projects
Photo by Tiff Wei
We Are Cary, 2020-2021
We Are Cary was a collaborative community project celebrating the Town’s 150th anniversary. I served a Project Coordinator over the course of the pandemic as the project became the story of all the people who contributed to the We Are Cary: the community members who donated t-shirts and made t-shirt rope to help us make over 300 masks to give away, the kids who wrote “Happy Birthday, Cary” messages at our Downtown Cary Farmers Market booth, the selfie-takers who shared their masked portraits, the families who shared stories of being welcomed to Cary in recent years, and the folks who told us about being here for decades. Learn more about We Are Cary from lead artist Jan-Ru Wan.
Photo by Teresa Moore
Raleigh’s People In Postcards, 2020 (virtual)
Raleigh’s People In Portraits, 2018-2019 (in person)
As Creative Aging Programs Coordinator, I coordinated curriculum, schedules, and materials for cohorts of sixty older adults receiving free self-portrait painting instruction from teaching artists in-person and online. Learn more about the Raleigh’s People in Portraits Program at Raleigh Arts. And view finished postcards from the virtual implementation of the program during Covid, Raleigh’s People in Postcards.
Art on the Move, 2014-2015
Working with teens from a Raleigh middle school, I designed a bus wrap for a City of Raleigh bus through the Raleigh Arts program, “Art on the Move”. In a series of workshops, students each drew a Raleigh skyline, painted it, and stitched the Raleigh bus routes on fabric. All artwork was scanned to create a digital collage that was then printed and wrapped on a city bus.
In Cloth We Remember, Cary Arts Center, 2014-2015
Up Close and Personal, Seymour Senior Center, 2011-2012
Both projects focused on creative reuse, upcycling and preserving memories to produce site-specific installations with older adults. The installations were created from donated clothing that was and screen-printed, painted and hand-stitched from community members. I served as project assistant.