Credit: Elizabeth Stone

The I REMEMBER Project is a participatory multi-generational community engagement
project that resulted in public artworks. The Project was inspired by artist Joe Brainard’s
book I Remember, conceived during the imposed isolation of the pandemic in 2020 and created during an artist-in-residency at Cassilhaus in Chapel Hill in October of 2021.

The multiple artworks in the I REMEMBER project incorporate thousands of photographic negatives and slides that were collected from generous community members in the greater Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, North Carolina communities. Each donation depicts individual and family histories and collectively, the artworks function as a record of the area’s identity.

The donated photographic materials span over 100 years and provide a window to life in this area from the early 1900’s to 2021. The images reveal moments in our lives, slices of time that encourage reflection: weddings, funerals, family gatherings, trips, portraits of loved ones, light falling on the landscape and of course cats.

Please join us on Saturday, October 7th at 3-5pm for the opening reception in the Grand Gallery at Golden Belts Arts.

Opens Saturday October 7, 2023

Credit: Elizabeth Stone