![]() Mellon Foundation – the largest supporter of arts and humanities in the U.S. Combined with the national reckoning regarding public art, monuments and race, the Foundation wanted to explore how art could serve as a starting place for people to engage in important - even difficult and courageous - conversations about their communities’ past, present and future. After an impactful inaugural IPA cohort of 10 grantees, we know that this effort can catalyze community conversations that result in a shared and fuller understanding of our common history - and common bonds - as North Carolinians.ĭuring the Foundation’s yearlong listening and learning tour across North Carolina, it was evident that legacies of racism and segregation are pervasive in many communities we visited, but are not often discussed in public unless there is a major issue involving race. Our investment in inclusive public art is intended to share stories of diversity, equality, inclusion and equity as they relate to the people and places of North Carolina, especially those whose stories are often untold or under told. ![]() ![]() Smith Reynolds Foundation (ZSR) believes that art can open the door to conversation.
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