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What an incredible two days of community connections we just had as we launched our first Winston-Salem Portrait Project Workshops!! This past weekend, half of the selected participants from all around the…

“Everybody really knows me as ‘The Peanut Man’. You’ll say ‘Hey, do you know Joe Watson who does media?’ and they’ll say ‘Who?’ but if you say ‘The Peanut Man’, they’ll say…

Our Host Committees have been out in their communities working hard to gather nominees for our final week!  The Southwest Ward hosted a mixer last week at Ember Audio to meet their…

Donna Susan Wilson represents the La Deara Crest community in the Northeast Ward of Winston-Salem. She has been with her husband for 42 years, and they have three children, eight grandchildren, and…

WOW!! We did it! After a few months of building the Portrait Project Host Committee, we were thrilled to finally get all 30 members together for a kickoff meeting on Tuesday, January…

WOW!!! What an incredible Host Committee Kick-Off meeting!! A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our volunteers for believing in this community engagement / public art project and giving us your time…

We are seeking people with stories that are quintessentially ‘Winston-Salem’. Whether it be someone who worked in the Hanes factory for decades or a budding athlete, artist or scholar that other young…

We’ve been loving trekking all around #WinstonSalem meeting community movers and shakers from so many backgrounds! Getting to know you Winston-Salem! If you’d like to tell us about your neighborhood & community,…

Such a huge and wonderful day yesterday meeting with Leadership Winston-Salem, the #WinstonSalem Arts Commission, Mona King & Kanika Brown to talk about how to get to know Winston-Salem better and find…

Jasmin & I got to nerd out on maps at the Winston-Salem Dept of City Planning also! Thank you Kelly Bennett for hooking us up with our own big map of Winston-Salem!!…