Buncombe Community Remembrance Project: Mars Hill Art Exhibit
While the Buncombe Community Remembrance Project e-newsletter typically comes out monthly on or near the first of the month, there are times where an “e-blast” will be sent about a call to action or an event. This is one such e-blast.
Ron Katz
Editor
Mars Hill Art Exhibit
The Weizenblatt Gallery’s first exhibition of the fall semester opened Wednesday (9/9), featuring works by Mars Hill University (MHU) faculty. One of the pieces is a painting by the Gallery’s director Skip Rodhe, “Say Their Names”, with portraits of 13 people killed by police or vigilantes. They are George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbury, Rekia Boyd, Sean Reed, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Yvette Smith, Ayanna Stanley-Jones, Dontre Hamilton, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, and Tamir Rice
The Weizenblatt Gallery is located on the campus of MHU in Moore Auditorium. The show runs through Friday 9/25, 10 am – 4 pm, Monday – Friday.
Provide Your Input
In the September edition of this e-newsletter, there were two short questionnaires offered. If you weren’t able to complete one or both yet, please share your thoughts now. Thanks!
- The Logistics/Historical Marker Work Group is now looking at one or more appropriate places to install historical markers that are at the sites of racial terror lynchings or at sites of significance to the Black community. Please help us by taking this one-question poll of possible locations for the Project to consider for one or more sites where a historical marker should be erected. Please complete by September 15th.
- What do you think of this e-newsletter? Please take a couple minutes to complete this three question survey.