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Visibly Speaking is back for Season 2 with 9 new exciting projects and stories to explore.

Developed in partnership with the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, this series follows the creation of public art projects across the state that honor the diverse people of North Carolina and their often untold stories of progress, creativity and resilience.

Watch season 2 of Visibly Speaking, premiering in January 2027 on PBS NC. New digital segments from season 2 will premiere this fall on the PBS app, Facebook and YouTube. The image is a poster titled "Visibly Speaking" featuring a collage of black and white photographs of street art and sculptures.

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Two paintings were taken from my art studio
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#CameronArtMuseum #latinxart #artelatinoamericano #arteboricua ArtExhibition

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Today we wrapped up our summer undergrad internship and said goodbye to our analyst, Ashley. Thank you to both Ashley and our sponsor, @zsrfoundation, for making this such a positive experience.
#ncgrowth #internship #summerintern

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On July 16, 2026, the Africa to Carolina Inclusive Public Art Initiative debuted its first major installation at the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson Historic Site, honoring the lives and legacies of enslaved Africans who disembarked on the shores of North Carolina. Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson is one of the many ports along North Carolina’s coastline that in total had approximately 2,000 enslaved Africans arrive on 11 documented voyages in the 18th century. Led by the NC African American Heritage Commission, the public art installation was formed through collaborative community engagement and created by North Carolina artists David Wilson and Stephen Hayes, and includes a poem by NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green. The Africa to Carolina project formed in 2018 after a charge from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to identify, acknowledge and memorialize sites where enslaved Africans disembarked in the Americas from the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. #blackhistory #africatocarolina #gullageechee #northcarolinahistory #publicart

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Ten years ago today, NCAAT was founded to ensure Asian American and Pacific Islander voices in North Carolina are heard, represented, and empowered.

This week, we’re celebrating where it all began and reflecting on the milestones that have shaped our journey—and the work still ahead.

#NCAAT #10Years #AAPI

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A true honor to join forces with the Mary C. Jenkins Center and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to document the first Western North Carolina African-American History Symposium earlier this year. We popped up a studio in a back room at the cultural center to photograph elders and organizers in the community as they gathered to celebrate, document, and preserve the history of Black Appalachia.

Poet Nicola Karesh has worked as a liaison between the Rosenwald Community and the city of Brevard to place historical markers around the region.
She writes:
“Life is a prayer. Let me open to the wisdom of it.
There’s a feeling that everything I could possibly want is already right here for me.
It is simply a matter of opening to the beauty and the inherent wisdom of life.”

Edith Darity, an alumna of the Rosenwald School helped organize the Center, and her daughter, Karen Darity, organized the symposium. (Shown together in slide #7.) Speaking about the effort, Karen says, “One day, the elders will no longer be here, and you can’t go back and ask them those important questions. There’s a way to bridge that gap through history and communication. Young people need to understand where their true identity and character come from through the stories of their elders, the grandparents, the aunties, and the people that helped raise them and help build their core values.”

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Well, folks… we’ve done it again! 🎉📚
Our Early Scribes Spring Camp has officially wrapped, and we are so proud to celebrate EIGHT new young authorpreneurs! Over the past seven weeks, this incredible cohort learned creative writing techniques, wrote their own books, collaborated with illustrators, and published completed works they can proudly call their own. What an accomplishment!

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the amazing support of our sponsors: Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Corning Corporation, Sam’s Club, The Gorham Group, and Domino’s Pizza on Fourth Street Downtown. Your support helps make opportunities like this possible for our youth, and we are truly grateful.

We also want to give a huge thank you to Bookmarks Bookstore for once again partnering with us to host such a special Book Reveal Reception. And to our parents, supporters, and everyone who came out to pack the house last Thursday night. THANK YOU for celebrating and encouraging these young authors along the way.

Watching these students grow in creativity, confidence, and entrepreneurship has been such a joy, and we cannot wait to see what they do next! ❤️

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For many families in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, formal childcare is too expensive, so kids often stay home with a parent, relative, or neighbor until they are old enough to enroll in public school.

Aurora Swain, a native of Tampico, Mexico, started Families First with her husband in 2014, in an effort to provide early educational support for the children of Cabarrus County through bilingual preschool and home-visiting programs.

With the help of a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Families First has been able to expand their programming to reach more than 100 families through twice weekly home visits, “bringing high quality preschool to their door.”

📸 for @zsrfoundation

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River. Canoe. Sorghum. Dancer. Princess. Garden. Churches. Feather.

No, it’s not a Connections puzzle; these are the threads that form the identity of the Coharie Tribe of North Carolina in Clinton, NC. Thank you to @zsrfoundation Inclusive Public Art Initiative and the Coharie Intertribal Council. It is a great honor to have been trusted with this project.

📸 @bdu_4

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🌟We are deeply grateful to our incredible funders and sponsors who made the 2025 Latine Education Summit possible. ⁠
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Your belief in our mission helps us create spaces where our comunidad can gather, learn, and lead with orgullo. Because of your support, hundreds of educators, advocates, and leaders came together to celebrate cultura, build connections, and reimagine education for Latine students across North Carolina and beyond.⁠
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🧡¡De todo corazón, Gracias!⁠
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#LatinxEdsummit #Educationaccess #NCeducators

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Continued in Part 2! ✨

Many thanks to project manager @banartwork for pulling fabrication together, @and.other.works for quilt wall substrate fabrication, @protolabhtx for architectural services and beyond, and @zsrfoundation for funding this important project 🙏🏻

#PrisonAwarenessQuilt
#PublicArtUnveiling
#ArtAndJustice
#SocialJusticeArt
#CommunityArt
#ArtWithPurpose
#StorytellingArt
#PublicArtProject
#MosaicArt
#MixedMediaArt
#ArtInPublicSpace
#HealingArt
#ArtForChange
#WomenInArt
#ArtthatMatters
#ArtForJustice
#PublicArtNC
#ArtOpeningNight
#SupportPublicArt
#InclusiveArt
#ArtExhibit
#CreativeCommunity
#ArtForImpact
#MeetTheArtist
#ArtLaunch
#CulturalEvent
#ArtCollectors
#ArtWalk
#FoldedPoetry
#ChangeThroughArt

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Don’t miss part 1! ✨

Many thanks to project manager @banartwork for pulling fabrication and logistics together, @and.other.works for quilt wall substrate fabrication, @protolabhtx for architectural services and beyond, and @zsrfoundation for funding this important project 🙏🏻

#PrisonAwarenessQuilt
#PublicArtUnveiling
#ArtAndJustice
#SocialJusticeArt
#CommunityArt
#ArtWithPurpose
#StorytellingArt
#PublicArtProject
#MosaicArt
#MixedMediaArt
#ArtInPublicSpace
#HealingArt
#ArtForChange
#WomenInArt
#ArtthatMatters
#ArtForJustice
#PublicArtNC
#ArtOpeningNight
#SupportPublicArt
#InclusiveArt
#ArtExhibit
#CreativeCommunity
#ArtForImpact
#MeetTheArtist
#ArtLaunch
#CulturalEvent
#ArtCollectors
#ArtWalk
#FoldedPoetry
#ChangeThroughArt

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