The Black Cultural Heritage Trail honors and preserves the rich heritage of Asheville’s Black community.
Sites and stories range from well-known landmarks visible in the community today to the unsung heroes and underrecognized achievements and contributions by the Black community in the past.
Explore Asheville, River Front Development Group, and the Asheville Black Cultural Heritage Trail (BCHT) Advisory Committee seek artists to submit qualifications for consideration for public art enhancements of the Asheville Black Cultural Heritage Trail. Public art is art utilizing any media such as murals or sculptures in public spaces that are free and open to the public.
Phase II of the Black Cultural Heritage Trail will include enhancement and placemaking through public art. The four interpretive goals for this project are:
- Share the accomplishments and contributions of the Black community in Asheville.
- Celebrate individuals and groups that supported the community.
- Highlight Black people’s agency and the capacity to express individual power.
- Combat or correct misconceptions and preserve history for future generations.
A working group of individuals from the BCHT Advisory Committee and Explore Asheville will review and choose the top four most qualified artists for this project. Those qualified artists will each be provided with a $2,000 honorarium to develop a project proposal around location(s) provided.
The working group is especially interested in art that highlights the proposed locations or narratives along the three sections of trail: Downtown, Southside, and River Area. Artists are encouraged to highlight accessibility, creativity, engagement for all ages, and the experience of the piece. The work could be a sculpture, mural, or other appropriate and engaging installation along the trail at one or more of the…
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