Gallery
Waterworks Visual Arts Center Hometown Teams Exhibit
Photos from the Hometown Teams Exhibit at Waterworks Visual Arts Center, which will run from June 4 - July 19.
Hometown Teams combines the prestige of the Smithsonian Institution, the program expertise of the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the remarkable volunteerism and unique histories of small rural towns to invigorate communities with the opportunity to host popular public events and cultural projects.
Wake Forest Museum Hometown Teams Exhibit
Wake Forest Historical Museum is hosting the Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America from April 16 - May 31, 2015. Hometown Teams is part of Museum on Main Street, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils across the nation, and local host institutions.
2015 Humanities on the Hill
Humanities on the Hill is an annual event held in Washington, DC as a lobbying effort for state councils to show their representatives the impact the humanities have on their constituents.
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, a Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition presented by the North Carolina Humanities Council, the Smithsonian Institution, and rural communities statewide, begins a year-long tour throughout North Carolina in February 2015.
The six Hometown Teams host sites include
2014 Caldwell Award
Edwin Graves Wilson will receive the North Carolina Humanities Council’s highest honor, the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities. The award recognizes Wilson for his lifelong achievements as an advocate for the public humanities across North Carolina. The ceremony was held at the Porter Byrum Welcome Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.
Bookmarks' Festival of Books and Authors 2014
Here are some of the photos from the Bookmarks' Festival of Books and Authors 2014, which is one of the mini-grants the North Carolina Humanities Council funded this year.
Dr. Anne Firor Scott Awarded a 2013 National Humanities Medal
Dr. Anne Firor Scott, a W.K. Boyd Professor of History Emerita at Duke University, and the 1994 winner of the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, which is the highest honor given by the North Carolina Humanities Council, is one of the 10 winners that will be honored with the 2013 National Humanities Medal awarded for outstanding achievements in history, cultural studies, filmmaking, cultural commentary, and historic preservation presented by President Barack Obama.
RiddleFest 2014: Railroad & Work Songs of the Mountains
RiddleFest, presented annually by Traditional Voices Group, honors native son and musician Lesley Riddle, who played a critical role in the development and early practice of American country music. This year's celebration, focused on railroad and work songs of the southern Appalachian Mountains through a variety of programs and performances in Burnsville NC and at the Historic Orchard at Altapass off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Spruce Pine.
Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine's National Child Labor Committee Photographs, 1908
In the fall of 2008, the North Carolina Humanities Council funded in part “Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine’s National Child Labor Committee Photography in GastonCounty, 1908.” This multi-part project explored Greater Gaston’s textile heritage and its impact on the community’s present and future. “Standing on a Box,” directed by Carol Reinhardt of the Gaston County Public Library, used photographs taken in 1908 by Lewis Hine, a sociologist, reformer, and National Child Labor Committee photojournalist, to explore child labor conditions in textile mills at the turn of the nineteenth century.
A Country, A People
“A Country, A People” began in Goldsboro in January 2011. Its feature event was an exhibit of photographs taken by U.S. military troops recently deployed in Afghanistan. The month-long project coincided with Wayne County Reads 2011, featuring Greg Mortenson’s Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School At A Time.
An Icon Transformed
A documentary photography exhibition on the repurpose and renovation of a public school built in 1939 in the heart of downtown Cary. This school sits on the original 143- year-old-site of first state-assisted public high school as well as near the school site for African American students.
Read "Full Circle" a presentation by Hilary Green, Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Elizabeth City State University.
Yadkin River Story
Photojournalist Christine Rucker and Journalist Phoebe Zerwick collaborated to collect stories and photo essays about people who live along the Yadkin River.
All photos by Christine Rucker.
Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville's East End
“Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville’s East End, 1970,” a multifaceted public humanities project organized around Andrea Clark’s powerful photographs, explores the community’s life before and after the impact of urban renewal there. The discussions and interviews of the “Twilight of a Neighborhood” project revealed a wide array of view points that often contradicted each other and signaled that the history of urban renewal is complex and shaded. Among the factors that shaped responses were race, age, gender,and class.
