Murals are not just large paintings on a wall - they carry so much more history, meaning and importance. Erica Nelson, a muralist who runs her own business, Mural Modern, installs art in the Wilmington area. In this episode, she describes the art of painting murals, their importance and the challenges of working during COVID.

Broadcast from the Shoresides studio, Somewhere & Elsewhere uncovers stories from artists across the coastal Carolina region.

Photo courtesy of Mural Modern. 

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Covid-19 has drastically changed our lives, including the way we learn and educate our future generations. Early education has had to radically adapt, and with that comes the challenge of providing a well-rounded education to elementary, middle, and high school students. Irese Robinson, founder and creative director of New Freedom Hill, discusses these challenges, the adaptations of arts education, why it is important to continue to teach art as we transition online and how the future of arts and media production careers is rapidly growing.

Broadcast from the Shoresides studio, Somewhere & Elsewhere uncovers stories from artists across the coastal Carolina region.

Photo courtesy of New Freedom Hill. 

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Brittani Smith (@PropheticPoetic, @JourneyBBones) is a poet from Wilmington, North Carolina. In this episode, Smith describes and performs her poem, "They Call Her Sapphire." Smith speaks about the history of the angry Black woman stereotype and how she's addressing it with her art.

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Wilmington on Fire, a 2015 feature-length documentary that tells the story of The Wilmington Massacre of 1898, is about to have a sequel: Wilmington on Fire II. The sequel will show Wilmington, North Carolina's modern day community members and their forms of activism - whether it's fighting for reparations, protesting police brutality, or building the black business community.

North Carolina filmmaker Christopher Everett is the film's director. Everett is the founder of Speller Street Films and BLK Docs, as well as the Communications Manager for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. Wilmington on Fire is streaming on Amazon Prime and a campaign to support Wilmington on Fire II is posted on Seed & Spark.

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It can be devastating to lose irreplaceable items like family photographs or heirlooms to a storm. Here are 5 tips from Katy Menne, educational curator for the NC Maritime Museum in Southport, to ensure that your memories survive the upcoming hurricane season.

In reference to the dishwasher question:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dishwasher-hurricane/

More tips on caring for private or family collections: https://www.nedcc.org/assets/media/images/Pres_Fam_Collections_2013.pdf

This episode was produced by Dana Rossi.

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"I take the stewardship of the collection real seriously... I want to do the best I can to keep the treasures safe for future generations of North Carolinians." Come hurricane season, collection managers in museums across the Carolina coast are asking themselves – am I doing the most that I can to preserve my culture's history?

Over the years, NC coastal museums have developed many tried and true rituals for protecting their town's most sacred items. But, as we learn in this episode, most museum staff still aren't sleeping through the night when a hurricane rolls through. In this episode we speak to Lynn Anderson, collections manger of the NC Maritime Museum System and Chris Sawin, executive director of Dare Arts Council.

This episode was produced by Christian Green. Photo by Jannette Pippin.

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When you think of protests, art is probably not the first thing to come to mind. North Carolina artist Antoine Williams talks about how art has the ability to motivate change and become part of the conversation, but efforts should not end there.

This episode was produced by Elena Hernandez.

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Nicole Triche is a professor at Elon University and director of "All Skate, Everybody Skate", a documentary about the 50-year-old Topsail Island Skate Rink located above a rural post office and the woman who runs it all. Triche discusses why documentaries are such a powerful medium and how filmmakers in small, rural areas are able to cover global issues through their own town's stories.

This episode was produced by Dana Rossi.

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Design is everything. It has the power to impact us in ways we may not even be aware of. Freelance graphic designer Emma Cooper, of Wilmington, NC discusses the responsibility she feels for using art to create change, the ability to make a living through her art, and the power we hold as creators and designers.

This episode was produced by Dana Rossi.

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Hunters and carvers along the Core Sound have been hand-carving wooden duck decoys for well over a century. In this episode, three members of the Core Sound Decoy Carver's Guild on Harkers Island walk us through the history of that tradition, how it has changed, and what it can teach us about how culture moves.

Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild: https://decoyguild.com/
Wayne Davis: https://decoyguild.com/the-guild/
Jerry Talton: https://jerrytaltondecoys.com/
Casey Arthur: https://www.caseyadecoys.com/
Joshua Hinson: http://www.lokosh.com/

This episode was produced by Christian Green.

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