Programs & Exhibits

 Celebrating the Arts in Durham

About the exhibit

Celebrating the Arts in Durham is a stunning display of some of the high points in Durham’s arts history. The panels you see in the online exhibit have real-life fabric equivalents—2 ½ x 6’ fabric banners housed in decorative, hand-wrought metal frames. This inaugural project of the Museum of Durham History is on display at various sites around Durham, NC, moving every two to three months.

To see images of individual banners, click on the title of the banner in the online exhibit.

The creators

Funding: The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the Durham Cultural Master Plan
Text: Lynn Richardson, Durham County Library, Durham, NC
Design: Barbara Williams, BW&A Books, Durham, NC
Frames: Al Frega, Durham, NC
Printing: Accent Banner, Medford, MA

The text is based on the book Brighter Leaves: Celebrating the Arts in Durham, written by a team of local authors and published by Preservation Durham in fall 2008. (For more information about the book, see the Preservation Durham web site: www.preservationdurham.org )

Banner display sites

Durham Technological Community College, October-December 2009
Durham Performing Arts Center, January-March 2010
North Carolina Central University, April-June 2010
Durham City Hall, July-September 2010