Durham County Main Library, at 300 N Roxboro Street, Durham, North Carolina, is hosting a lecture, Public Art & Protest: A Tour of Murals in North Carolina on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Sara Bell, a musician, folklorist and educator, will be the speaker.
This is a free event, but please RSVP at the above link.
Murals tell stories. Whether coded in the language of graffiti, offering bright bursts of colorful decoration, reflecting familiar faces or landscapes, or inviting us to spend time inspecting the intricate images in a collage, artists are often inspired to communicate through the blank walls in public spaces. Public art serves multiple purposes. It beautifies dilapidated areas of a neighborhood or city; it encourages and empowers community members; it provides representation and a sense of belonging; it reflects our history, or corrects false narratives; it relates the experiences of marginalized voices; it reclaims contested spaces and provides a sense of agency.
Starting with Cornelio Campo’s “Wings of a Migrant Butterfly” and the Downtown Durham Protest Mural Photographs in the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection, in this talk we will fan out across Durham, through the Piedmont, and from the Mountains to the Coast exploring the landscape of murals in North Carolina, and how they can help to energize and motivate communities in crisis.
Durham County Library
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