Learning Resources For Change
Website: www.lrc-nc.org
Instagram: @echomakerspace
Vimeo: georgie nakima
Key Personnel:
Founder & Executive Director: Georgie Nakima
Email: geo@lrc-nc.org
Community Outreach Manager: Alison Dunn
Email: alison@lrc-nc.org|
Programs Manager: Jae Quisol
Email: jquisol@lrc-nc.org
ABOUT: Learning Resources for Change (LRC) is a nonprofit organization that caters to the community through visual art, art therapy, and education. LRC leads community-based art initiatives across the Carolinas that encourage creativity and inspiration into our environment. LRC works to make art, film, environmental science, music, health and wellness, and technology accessible to under-served communities starting in Charlotte and reaching across North Carolina and the globe.
PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES
Echo Makerspace
Echo is a makerspace and community center that bridges art, technology and community engagement in East Charlotte, North Carolina.
Manifest Future Mural
In collaboration with the Charlotte Knights Foundation, Historic West End, Mosaic Live, League of Creative Interventionists Fellow, Janelle Dunlap and artist, Sloane Siobhan this revitalization project focused on creatively reactivating space to encourage ethical redevelopment of vacant space. Embracing the vision of Afrofuturism, the goal of this project is to inspire the future presence of this historically black community while it is undergoing rapid gentrification. Manifest Future is an interactive community mural project that intends to influence and cultivate socio-economic mixing, community reinvestment and communal collaboration. Activities included Live painting, Art education, Community Wellness Education, Drum Circles, Food Trucks, Local Entrepreneurs, Live Music
Talking Walls is a citywide, annual public art and mural festival bringing together artists with diverse styles & backgrounds from all over the Americas. In its inaugural year, LRC played a role in sponsorship while also delivering a mural on Central Ave.
Revitalize New Bern
The collaborative (civic groups, educational institutions, local government), along with supporting experts and resources, 1) engaged with/worked with the diverse communities of Eastern Carteret County to define what resilience means to them, 2) developed a shared understanding of community resilience across geographic, racial, and social divides, and 3) implemented a process for supporting community resilience through cross-community groups. Challenges addressed included storm readiness, economic development and opportunity, access to mental health and addiction services, and others as identified as part of the collaborative problem-solving process. Revitalize New Bern has a mission to use art as a teaching medium to enlighten, inspire, and uplift residents in New Bern and surrounding areas that have been displaced due to flooding damage caused by Hurricane Florence.
MEDIA COVERAGE
‘Manifest Tribute’ a tribute and love letter to Historic West End; Mural series pays homage to past and potential. - The Charlotte Post
Open Streets 704 expects to draw in large numbers of people. - Charlotte Agenda
Charlotte Residents take to the streets for Open Streets 704. - Sustain Charlotte
Creative call for the Revitalize New Bern Public Art Initiative under lead design artist Georgie Nakima - New Bern Now
