Q&A: Using Art to Highlight Coal Ash Pollution in Appalachia
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The photographer travelled to Belews Creek in North Carolina to depict the ways in which polluting industries were damaging small towns in southern America. The resulting series is lyrical and subtly unnerving.
Caroline Armijo’s coal ash art is ready for its close-up.
Photographers, sculptors, muralists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets are using their art to expose the threat of coal ash and advocate for clean air and drinking water.
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com The Walnut Cove Colored School, built in 1921, now houses the Senior Center. Neill Caldwell | The Stokes News An early architectural plan for a Rosenwald School, of which 5,000 were built across the South. Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington became friends and set out to try to correct the inequality of education for young blacks. A class photo at the school in Walnut Cove, some time in the 1930s. The historic marker in front of the building outlines the story of the Colored School. WALNUT COVE — It was a very unusual partnership –...