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

DOWNLOAD MURAL MAP (1.8 MB)

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.

In advance of the September 13 Mural Bike/Bus Tour, Brett Cook and Barbara Lau will be interviewed by host Frank Stasio on the WUNC (91.5 FM) show, “The State of Things.”

Listen to the interview on WUNC’s Web site

Friday, April 25, 4–8 p.m
DURHAM GET TOGETHER
Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina

VIEW A VIDEO ABOUT THIS EVENT PRODUCED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL

DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html

In conjunction with Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Join artist Brett Cook for a Face Up Celebration / The Annual Lehman Brady Presentation

Music / Food / Exhibit Opening / Activities

Durham Get Together, the culminating spring event for the Face Up project at the Center for Documentary Studies, will feature the opening of an exhibition, a dialogue with artist Brett Cook on building community, mural coloring, quilting, a community labyrinth, and live music.

Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is a documentary arts project devoted to building community in Southwest Central Durham through the collaborative creation of a series of large-scale, locally inspired public murals. Brett Cook, whose unique approach combines drawing, painting, and photography with ethnographic fieldwork and community organizing (www.brett-cook.com), is coordinating the project in January–May 2008. www.faceupproject.com

Brett Cook is the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill for Spring 2008. This collaborative, cross-campus arrangement involves distinguished writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other practitioners and scholars of the documentary arts who teach courses on both campuses and engage in lectures, screenings, and other events for students and the general public.

Murals
The first mural–featuring the late Pauli Murray, a poet, activist, and Episcopal priest who grew up in Durham–has been installed on the outside of the TROSA furniture store on Foster Street in Durham. TROSA has been an enthusiastic part of the project, attending every event and assisting with mural installation. Seven murals will be going up on TROSA’s James Street campus–one is a portrait of founder Kevin MacDonald and two of his colleagues. A listing of mural locations will be available at the Durham Get Together event.

Project Exhibit
Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is an interactive, multimedia exhibition of images, documents, and artifacts that both inspired and came out of the many social collaborations of the Face Up project. The exhibition includes video, collaborative Community Encyclopedias, a Community Quilt, and a mural.

Dialogue on Building a Loving Community
Join in a conversion with Lehman Brady Visiting Professor Brett Cook, reflecting on the ongoing action of the Face Up project.

Entertainment
4-5 p.m. Square dancing and old time music
5-6 p.m. TROSA band
6-7 p.m. Robert Trowers Quartet

Create a Community Labyrinth
A labyrinth is a single path with no forks or dead ends, winding through four quadrants of a circle to bring the traveler to the circle’s center and out again. One of the oldest contemplative tools known to human kind, it has been used in many cultures. For this labyrinth, select a pair of shoes and inscribe them with a thought about community, add them to the labyrinth, then consider the thoughts of others as you walk the path. Facilitator: Bryant Holsenbeck

Face Up Project Mural Coloring
Participants will be a part of creating colorful new murals including images of the Six Paramitas, or principles of enlightened living, and an Aztec calendar. These images were selected to highlight the sacred quality in all of us as members of the Durham community. You are invited to color the murals in any way you like. Please express yourself freely and choose to be a part of creating these new neighborhood monuments. Facilitators: Face Up Team

Quilting
Quilting is an art form embraced by many cultures around the globe. Each quilt artist draws from his or her own culture when selecting fabrics, batting materials, and quilt patterns. Some create quilts with exacting geometric symmetry while others prefer a more freeform improvisational approach. At this event, you are invited to express your own stitching on a quilt, as part of a communal artistic collaboration. Facilitator: Barbara Lau

Revolution Encyclopedia
A wide assortment of visual art supplies will accompany sketchbooks, the material focus of this station. Participants are free to express themselves in the sketchbooks regarding community, connection, and other related topics of choice. Facilitators: Face Up Team

Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project
Learn about the six neighborhoods that make up Southwest Central Durham: Burch Avenue, Lyon Park, West End, Lakewood Park, Morehead Hill, and Tuscaloosa-Lakewood. Historically segregated into African American and white neighborhoods, this area is becoming more integrated and is striving to reach out to the many newly emerging Latino enclaves within its borders. The residents and organizations that make up the Quality of Life Project are working to break down economic, social, and cultural boundaries by building intentional bridges of common experience and shared concern.

The Face Up project embraces and advances this approach through an artist residency/public art process that engages and amplifies the voices and stories of community members through the creation of monumental works of art, allowing them to access the power of creativity and discover new avenues to community membership and involvement.

Event Catering
Azteca Grill
LocoPops
Palace International
TROSA & Durham Food Co-Op

This event was made possible by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Duke University Office of Community Affairs, Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project, North Carolina Arts Council, Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost – Duke University, City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department, Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenfire Development, Visual Studies Initiative – Duke University, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies – Duke University, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary D.B.T. Semans Foundation, Calvary Ministries of the West End Inc., Office of the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations – Duke University, TROSA, Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Association, Azteca Grill, Chicken Hut, and the residents of Southwest Central Durham.

Sunday, April 13, 2-6 p.m.
WEST END BLOCK PARTY
Lyon Park Field, Cornell and Halley Streets, Durham, North Carolina

In conjunction with Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Food / Music / Art / Fun / FREE

Weather Forecast: Lovely. Mix of sun and clouds, highs in the low 60s.

JOIN US.
At the party we will be coloring murals depicting past and present champions of Southwest Central Durham. We will also have a labyrinth made of shoes, monument building with the Scrap Exchange, community quilting, soccer activities, sketchbooks, great food from the Chicken Hut and Azteca Grill, and fabulous music including DJ Rich Medina. [SEE MORE DETAILS BELOW.]

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 January–May 2008.

WEST END BLOCK PARTY
A Collaborative Community Celebration

Listing of Stations
Courtesy of the Face Up Team

Invocation
What better way to celebrate the start of this event than with our friend and neighbor Hazelene Umstead. Since returning to her childhood home in Durham in 1993, Hazelene has become a glowing presence in the community. As she states, she hoped to restore the vitality of her neighborhood because she was afraid that the “laughter had faded away.” Hazelene has succeeded in bringing laughter and fellowship to this neighborhood through her commitment to the vision of a loving community.

Create a Community Labyrinth
A labyrinth is a single path with no forks or dead ends, winding through all four quadrants of a circle to bring the traveler to the circle’s center and out again. It is one of the oldest contemplative tools known to humankind and has been used in many cultures throughout time. Select a pair of shoes and inscribe them with a thought about community, add them to the labyrinth, then consider the thoughts of others as you walk the path.
Facilitator: Bryant Holsenbeck

DJ Rich Medina
DJ Rich Medina lives, breathes, and revels in sharing the type of music that makes a listener remember her/his soul. It is this awareness of soul that brings listeners back time and again to hear Rich spin: heads nod, bodies sway, emotions expand and coalesce. He lures you in and makes you forget who you were before the music began – he spins you into the now, into the moment, into the vital essence of who you are. Rich Medina has always seen music as a form of celebration and rejoicing.

Face Up Project Collaborative Coloring
Drawings based on photographs of local residents have been transferred to larger-than-life canvases which will be installed as murals in Durham. The murals are about residents from the six neighborhoods that make up Southwest Central Durham and their ideas about community. West End Block Party participants are invited to color the murals in any way they like. Please express yourself freely and choose to be a part of creating these new neighborhood monuments.
Facilitators: Face Up Team

Quilting
Quilting is an artform embraced by many cultures across the globe, and each quilt artist draws from his or her own culture when selecting fabrics, batting materials, and quilt patterns. Some create quilts with exacting geometric symmetry, while others prefer a more free-form improvisational approach. At the West End Block Party, we can use our own ideas to make quilt blocks for our own unique creation.
Facilitators: Candace Thomas and Barbara Lau

Revolution Encyclopedia
A wide assortment of visual art supplies accompanies sketchbooks that are the material focus of this station. Collaborators are free to express themselves in the sketchbooks regarding community, connection, and whatever they may want to say.
Facilitators: Face Up Team

Scrap Exchange Building Community Monuments
The Scrap Exchange is a nonprofit creative reuse center located in downtown Durham. Its mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse of collecting industrial discards through a retail store, community events, parties and workshops. We’ll be using loads of this wonderful material to create personal monuments to our community.
Facilitators: Scrap Exchange Staff

SEEDS
SEEDS Community Garden encourages respect for life, for earth, and for each other. SEEDS helps individuals, neighborhoods, and communities grow together through gardening, gathering, and education. This Sunday we’ll have a variety of free seeds and garden information available. Plan a garden for your yard or your whole block!
Facilitators: Seeds Staff

Azteca Grill
Owner Magaly Espriella has succeeded in creating a local restaurant that has become a vibrant presence in Durham, a presence that deliciously reminds us of the rich cultural contributions of our Latino neighbors. Azteca Grill is known locally for their high quality food, and more importantly, as a social gathering place for their entire community.

Chicken Hut
Serving traditional soul food cooked with lots of love, the Chicken Hut has been favorite gathering place for generations of Durham residents.

Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project
Six neighborhoods make up Southwest Central Durham: Burch Avenue, Lyon Park, West End, Lakewood Park, Morehead Hill, and Tuscaloosa-Lakewood. Historically segregated into African American and white neighborhoods, this area is becoming more integrated and is striving to reach out to the many newly emerging Latino enclaves within its borders. The residents and organizations that make up the Quality of Life Project are working to break down economic, social, and cultural boundaries by building intentional bridges of common experience and shared concern.

The Face Up project embraces and advances this approach through an artist residency/public art process that engages and amplifies the voices and stories of community members through the creation of monumental works of art, allowing them to access the power of creativity and discover new avenues to community membership and involvement.

This event was made possible in part by the people, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University, Duke University Office of Community Affairs (OCA), Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project (QOL), The North Carolina Arts Council, Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost – Duke University, the City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department, Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenfire Development, Visual Studies Initiative – Duke University, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies – Duke University, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary D.B.T. Semans Foundation, Calvary Ministries of the West End, Inc., Office of the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations – Duke University, TROSA, Tuscaloosa-Lakewood Neighborhood Association, Azteca Grill, Chicken Hut, and the residents of Southwest Central Durham.

Held at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Photographer Wendy Ewald and painter Brett Cook first worked together in 1999, when Ewald invited Cook to work with teachers in Durham. Since then they have been discussing and refining the ways in which they make collaborative art. Last fall, at Amherst College, they created their first public installation/exhibition together. In A Dialogue on Art and Social Collaboration, they will describe how they each formerly conceived and carried out a collaborative project, one that involved constructing rich, welcoming environments for their partners to work in—in addition to making their own photographs and paintings. They will also talk about how they melded their working methods in the making of Amherst College Portraits: A Community Collaboration with Wendy Ewald and Brett Cook.

Wendy Ewald
Wendy Ewald is a conceptual artist who has collaborated with communities in the United States and throughout the world for more than thirty years. Ewald’s approach to photography probes questions of identity and cultural differences. She has received many honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. She has had solo exhibitions at major museums and was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. She is currently a visiting artist at Amherst College, a senior research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and an artist-in-residence at the John Hope Franklin Center, also at Duke University. Towards the Promised Land, published by Steidl/Artangel, is her tenth book.

Brett Cook
Brett Cook creates artwork and experiences that defy classification in any single discipline. His work has been shown at museums and galleries since 1991, concurrent with a practice manifested in public projects since 1984. The public works have been executed in the United States, from California to Maine, and internationally in Brazil, Barbados, and Mexico. His public collaborations include a South Central Los Angeles project addressing divinity; the Development/Gentrification Project installed in ten locations throughout Harlem; and a project addressing segregation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While some of his work has been commissioned by museums or public agencies, other projects have been self-initiated interventions on abandoned spaces. His use of participatory ethnographic strategies, progressive educational pedagogy, and community organizing connect his work to exceptionally wide audiences. He is a seasoned Ashtangi and student of many forms of yoga, meditation, and healing, which inform his process and products.

Cook is currently the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor for Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Spring 2008. He is also working with Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life (www.faceupproject.org), a project of the Center for Documentary Studies in Southwest Central Durham.

The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University invites you to a

COMMUNITY ART FIESTA

In conjunction with Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life

SATURDAY, MARCH 1 * 2–5 p.m. * REFRESHMENTS * MUSIC

Location: Lakewood YMCA, 2119 Chapel Hill Road, Durham NC

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 January–May 2008.

Questions: 919-660-3676 or 919-660-3664

HEALING THE PAST AND CREATING THE FUTURE BY LIVING IN THE PRESENT MOMENT

Click the image below to view a slide show of the fall 2007 residency.

Hold the Date! Brett Cook’s fall residency will culminate in a Pauli Murray birthday celebration and mural unveiling at the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1313 Halley Street, Durham, North Carolina. (The Center is located at the corner of Halley and Kent Streets about midway between Lakewood Avenue and Morehead Avenue south and west of downtown Durham.)

Refreshments served / free / everyone welcome.

Open to the General Public

Wednesday, November 7
Workshop, Smith Warehouse Drawing Studio, 1:15–2:30 p.m.

Friday, November 9
Workshop and House Party, 912 Arnette Avenue, 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 10
Workshop, Brightleaf Square, Suite 25-D, 2–4 p.m.

Bring yourself, your family, and your friends. Bring your ideas, your energy, and your knowledge. Each workshop can accommodate 30 people. All supplies and snacks will be provided. Please RSVP to faceupproject@duke.edu or by calling 919-660-3676.