Designers celebrate Pride Month in communities across the United States
Artists, designers, and cities are showing their pride for pride with installations, events, and programming that recognize the LGBT community.
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Artists, designers, and cities are showing their pride for pride with installations, events, and programming that recognize the LGBT community.
“Pride is also a protest of the hate, the discrimination, the marginalization that we continue to face,” Chapel Hill Mayor Pro Tempore Karen Stegman said. “Especially our trans community, most especially people of color and youth. We must stand together and be more visible than ever.”
This Pride Month, Chapel Hill and Carrboro will collaborate to hold a series of events in celebration the third annual Small Town Pride. Chapel Hill's Pride Promenade is the first of these events. Pride Promenade will be a celebration featuring art of many varieties, including sculpture, interactive mural-making, drag and DJs.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art will open a new exhibition called "bag(s) of sand" on May 25 in the Main Gallery at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.
'Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now' runs Thursday, January 13 to Sunday, July 10.