Raleigh was founded in 1792 and, with a population of 467,000, is the capital of the state of North Carolina. The booming metropolis with its big city atmosphere and southern charm offers a variety of cabarets and the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts is particularly worth a visit. The 10th Special Olympics World Summer Games were also held here in 1999. Of course, the city also has plenty of urban art to offer. Especially THE RALEIGH MURALS PROJECT has done a lot during the years and the DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE provides a great art map. Here we have a photo gallery collected by creative painter CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT. Check out as well the interview about his fantastic artworks.
OUIZI
Artist: OUIZI – LOUISE JONES
Website: https://ouizi.art
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ouiziart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/0uizi
„Shaw University’s 150th Anniversary“ – SCOTT NURKIN
Visit Raleigh about the artwork: Founded in 1865 and located in the heart of downtown Raleigh since 1871, Shaw University – the first historically Black university in the South, the first college in the nation to offer a four-year medical school and the first Black college in the nation to enroll women – celebrated their 150th anniversary in 2015. This mural by artist Scott Nurkin showcases three themes – technology, entrepreneurship and sustainability – plus features Henry Martin Tupper – who founded Shaw upon teaching formerly enslaved men how to read and write during his work as a missionary—and Ella Josephine Baker. Baker grew up in Littleton, N.C., graduated as valedictorian from Shaw in 1927 and went on to become known as „the mother of the Civil Rights movement“ through her behind-the-scenes work with three of the 20th century’s most influential civil rights groups: the National Association or the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the previously mentioned Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that John Lewis would later become chairman of. Baker helped found SNCC after hosting a days-long conference for students at Shaw University in 1960. – Visit Raleigh
Artist: SCOTT NURKIN
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snurkin
Curator: THE MURAL SHOP – SCOTT NURKIN
Website: https://themuralshop.biz
Website: https://www.musicianmuralsproject.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themuralshop
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themuralshop
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ncmusicianmurals
SPCL SIGNS
Artist: SPCL SIGNS
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Spclsigns/100069149601196
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spclsigns
„Beachfront Opportunities 2050“ – AUTUMN COBELAND
Location: 827 West Morgan Street – Created in 2019
Artist: AUTUMN COBELAND
Website: https://autumncobelandpaintings.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenwayartist
„Tribute to John Lewis“ – JALEL RONIN
Visit Raleigh about the artwork: This mural by artist JALEL RONIN celebrates the life of the late John Lewis, a towering figure of the civil rights era who served for more than three decades in Congress and is known for his unwavering fight for equality in the 1960s. Lewis – who in 2011 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor – was one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinator Committee, was an organizing leader of the March on Washington and led many other protests, sit-ins and marches. Lewis was arrested more than 40 times and repeatedly physically assaulted, including an infamous beating by police that fractured his skull on the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965. Lewis died at the age of 80 in 2020, and this mural on the exterior of Trophy Brewing + Pizza went up the following month. The mural depicts the Edmond Pettus Bridge with a new name, the John Lewis Bridge, a change that many have advocated for in recent years. – Visit Raleigh
Location: 827 West Morgan Street, Raleigh 27603
Artist: JALEL RONIN
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Jalel-Ronin-100070056713043
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jalel.vlonegraff
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jalel_ronin
„8-Bit to 5G“ – TAYLOR WHITE
Location: 429 South Wilmington Street
Artist: TAYLOR WHITE
Website: https://www.taylorwhite.art
Website: https://taylorwhite.substack.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylorwhiteart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taylorwhitestudio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taylurk
Twitter: https://x.com/taylurk
„Quilt Square“ at „Boulted Bread“ – MATT WICKWIRE
Location: 328 Dupont Cir – Made in 2014
Artist: MATT WICKWIRE
Bakery: BOULTED BREAD
Website: https://boultedbread.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boultedbread
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boultedbread
„Honest Abe at Lincoln Theater“ – CLARK HIPOLITO
Location: 126 East Cabarrus Street – West Facing Wall of Lincoln Theater
Artist: CLARK HIPOLITO
Website: https://www.theartco.studio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clark.hipolito1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarkhipolito
Twitter: https://x.com/clarkhipolito
Support: DAVID EICHENBERGER & JASON JOHNS
Theater: LINCOLN THEATER
Website: https://lincolntheatre.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LincolnTheatreNC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lincoln919
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LincolnRaleigh
„Street Alphabet“ – MCK
Artist: MCK – MORGAN COOK
Website: https://www.mckcreative.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artofmck
Twitter: https://x.com/artofmck
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theartofmck
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@artofmck
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/artofmck
„Artsplosure“ – Raleigh Arts Festival
Event: ARTSPLOSURE – RALEIGH ARTS FESTIVAL
Website: https://www.artsplosure.org
Website: https://raleighartsfestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Artsplosure
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artsplosure
Twitter: https://twitter.com/artsplosure
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@artsplosure
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/artsplosure
Sculptures & Statues
INFOTHEK
Art Association: THE RALEIGH MURALS PROJECT
Website: https://www.raleighmuralsproject.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raleighmuralsproject
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raleighmuralsproject
Creative Space: DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE
Website: https://downtownraleigh.org/explore/public-art
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/downtownraleigh
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downtownraleighalliance
Twitter: https://x.com/downtownraleigh
Photographer: CHARLES SAMUEL WAIT
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cswait8291
Facebook – Profile: https://www.facebook.com/charles.wait.583
Facebook – Page: https://www.facebook.com/csw8291
Group – Abstract Art & Writing and Such: https://www.facebook.com/groups/738272739689903
Group – The Copes of a Sub-Cultural Society & Music: https://www.facebook.com/groups/173637750105568
Interview: https://vagabundler.com/painter/charles-samuel-wait
Podcast: https://hearthis.at/radio-x-interviews/charles-samuel-wait
New Artworks: https://vagabundler.com/usa/charles-samuel-wait-2021
New Artworks: https://vagabundler.com/usa/charles-samuel-wait-2022
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