Creative Greensboro has selected two Greensboro-based artists to participate in a new, year-long municipal residency program, Neighborhood Arts: Creative Allies. Artists Jada Weathers and Jessica Jackson will work alongside the Human Rights and Housing and Neighborhood Development Departments in the Dudley Heights and Kings Forest neighborhoods.
Weathers is working in the Dudley Heights community and is partnered with Housing and Neighborhood Development. She has chosen Community Land Trusts – which provide broader access to affordable, low-risk homeownership opportunities for income-qualified families – as her program area. Jackson is working in Kings Forest with the Human Rights Department. She has chosen the International Advisory Committee – which seeks to create a more inclusive Greensboro for members of the international community – as her program focus.
“This is such an innovative program,” says Jackie Boone, chief creative economy officer of Creative Greensboro. “Harnessing the creative thinking of artists to tackle important civic issues ties community and government closer together and allows us to embrace bold new solutions to residential concerns.”
More information about the artists and these projects can be found at www.creativegreensboro.com.
About Neighborhood Arts
Neighborhood Arts supports artists and neighborhood residents as co-leaders to connect communities with creativity. The program brings creative experiences close to home through arts activities and beautification projects that respond to neighborhood priorities. Through the program, Creative Greensboro has committed over $200,000, to date, toward creative projects in the five neighborhoods identified for reinvestment in the City’s Housing GSO plan. Additional support for the initiative is provided by the City’s Housing and Neighborhood Development, Human Rights, Water Resources, Transportation, Parks and Recreation, and Library departments and the Office of Sustainability.
Founded in 2019, Creative Greensboro provides support for, ensures access to and drives awareness of Greensboro’s creative community. Through a range of programs, services and partnerships, Creative Greensboro supports the development of a vibrant city.
