In the past two months we selected a cohort of 12 artists to create three murals this summer and hosted three community dinners to gather input from the community. We were awarded $75K from the National Endowment for the arts for the second phase of our mural initiative (for next summer) which will be an incredible opportunity to expose our work to a national audience.

In the next two months it will be key to recruit broad participation in our mural paint parties and other public art events to give everyone ownership of the three murals while they are being developed. Summer camp is also around the corner and we would like to recruit more middle and high school students, increasing enrollment from 70 to 100. We’d like our curriculum standards to be finalized before the fall semester begins (specifically speaking to our values, racial equity, environmental justice, and the future of work - not delineated in the NC Standard Course of Study).