OUR WORK
In spring 2023, we hosted free workshops for community members at their partnering organization DREAMS of Wilmington, using mural painting, movement, writing, and other modes of storytelling.
Students returned to campus to create their own artistic projects based on their historical research in Wilmington. Samples from two of these projects are below.
Rebekah Alvarenga
Wilmington Landscapes
Rebekah Alvarenga, a junior majoring in Cultural Anthropology and Visual & Media Studies, created a series of five collages titled “Wilmington Landscapes,” layering photos from Wilmington’s past and present with newspaper articles, signs and landmarks to build a nuanced response to the coup and its reverberations down the decades to “connect 1898 to today.”
Malynda Wollert
Common Threads: Wilmington 1898 in Context
Malynda Wollert focused on the significance of quilts within southern African-American communities as a method of storytelling. Quilts and quilting circles became critical ways of sharing information and messages. Wollert’s own design featured themes of slavery, civil war, antebellum and reconstruction, and a vision of the future.
Cornelio Campos
Community members worked with muralist Cornelio Campos to create a 16’ X 4’ mural featuring the scenes from the massacre interspersed with racist imagery from 1898 political cartoons published in newspapers of the day.
Participating Artists
