The Art Park opens

Check out these pictues from our Art Park Openning.

The Art Park reclaims space and visibility on Tryon for the human side of homelessness that was lost in the new buiding construction.
Among it's many features the Art Park serves as a street soccer pitch and an Ampitheatre.

The park was made possible through a UNCC Chancellor's Diversity Grant as well as the great collaboration between people on the street and the Architecture and Activism Class taught by Linda Samuels at UNCC's College of Architecture and coadvised by Frances Hawthorne at UNCC's art department and Lawrence Cann, director of Community Works 945. Many thanks to COA's dean Ken Lamba for supporting the class and the project.

The park feaures the use of recycled tires as benches and donated lockers that provide needed safe storage for over 100 people who are homeless.
Thanks to Eric, Nathan, Stephanie, Matt, and Andy, the students who worked on the project as well as Rollon, Ray, Mohammed, Michael S. and B., Beverly, Wade, Courtney, Amil, Pop, Scott, Joe Rob, and many many more who should be named here.

The Parks' opening was last wednesday and shortly there afer the first edition of the Joe Rob Show Open Mic was help on Friday. This weekend the first street soccer game will be played there as part of the US National Homeless World Cup training weekend.