The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University invites you to a
MURAL TOUR BY BUS/BIKE
7 Sites. 14 Murals.
Celebrating Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2–6 p.m.
REFRESHMENTS * ART * COMMUNITY
Tour begins at CDS, 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham
DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html
Ride your bicycle or ride our bus. We’ll leave CDS at 2 p.m.
Face Up is a documentary arts project devoted to building and strengthening community in Southwest Central Durham through the collaborative creation of a series of large-scale, locally inspired public murals.
Artist Brett Cook, whose unique approach combines drawing, painting, and photography with ethnographic fieldwork and community organizing, is collaborating on the Durham project in 2008.
More information: www.faceupproject.com.
Questions: 919-660-3676 or 919-660-3664
FACE UP: COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS IN DURHAM
The tour begins at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham, at 2:00 p.m.
1 [arrive 2:20, Depart 2:45]
Pauli Murray and True Community • TROSA Furniture, with support from Greenfire Development, 313 Foster Street
“True Community is based upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.” Pauli Murray, “Challenge of Nurturing the Christian Community in Its Diversity,” sermon, March 1979
2 [arrive 2:55, Depart 3:20]
Pauli Murray Roots and Soul • Durham Food Co-op, 1101 West Chapel Hill Street
“It has taken me almost a lifetime to discover that true emancipation lies in the acceptance of the whole past, in deriving strength from all my roots, in facing up to the degradation as well as the dignity of all my ancestors.” Pauli Murray, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
3 [arrive 3:30, Depart 4:15]
Aztec Calendar • Azteca Grill, 1929 Chapel Hill Road
There was not just one Aztec calendar; there were two. The xiuhpohualli (year count) had 365 days and was a solar and agricultural calendar. The tonalpohualli (day count) calendar had 260 days and was the sacred calendar, used for divination. Together the two calendars formed a fifty-two-year century, the Calendar Round. In Aztec cosmology the equilibrium of the universe is always in danger, and the tonalpohualli was created to bring balance. The notion that everything consists of two opposing forces was essential to the Aztecs.
Pauli Murray and the Virgen de Guadalupe • Institute for Southern Studies, 2009 Chapel Hill Road
The Virgen de Guadalupe is a significant cultural and religious symbol in Mexico, and for many people she represents a loving, affirming presence. Pauli Murray was the first African American woman ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church; she preached about diversity, wholeness, and community, and her life and work are an inspiration.
Avalokiteshvara Buddha • The Chameleon, 2013 Chapel Hill Road
In Sanskrit, the name Avalokiteshvara refers to the power of seeing. This enlightened figure is never blind to the suffering of any living being. Avalokiteshvara is sometimes called the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion he is one who works to create well-being in others.
4 [arrive 4:25, Depart 4:45]
Pauli Murray, a Youthful Spirit • Lakewood Elementary School, 2520 Vesson Avenue
Pauli Murray, a member of the influential Fitzgerald family, spent her formative years in Durham, where she developed dignity, self-respect, and an appetite for achievement.
5 [arrive 4:55, Depart 5:30]
Durham Community Portraits • TROSA, 1820 James Street
These seven murals depict families, students, and activists from Southwest Central Durham neighborhoods. Framing the images are the residents’ own ideas about the meaning of community.
The tour ends at the Center for Documentary Studies at 6:00.
Face Up is a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in association with the Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project and the Duke University Office of Community Affairs.
Face Up is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts. Other major supporters are the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; the Mary D.B.T. Semans Foundation; the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University; the Visual Studies Initiative, Duke University; the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University; the Office of the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations, Duke University; and the Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Association.
