Creative Greensboro's Neighborhood Arts brings creativity close to home through diverse, community-based arts activities and beautification projects that respond to neighborhood priorities in historically underinvested areas

In 2023, Creative Greensboro continued to bring art opportunities close to home with its Neighborhood Arts Curated Programs, offering concerts, a poetry and visual arts series, and story-telling and art-making events in three communities in Greensboro.

This effort builds on the creative activities from the Neighborhood Arts Residency Program with a variety of community-based, arts experiences in or near Dudley Heights, Glenwood and Kings Forest. 

“Neighborhood Arts programming is necessary because it allows people who may not otherwise engage in the art-making process to have a say in what takes place in their community.”, said Jackie Boone, Chief Creative Economy Officer and head of Creative Greensboro.

“By building upon the collaborative process of the Neighborhood Arts Residency program, the Curated Programming is designed to reflect the values and experiences of the neighborhood. It demonstrates that we all have the ability to create and imagine a way to make our neighborhoods more vibrant.”

About Neighborhood Arts

Neighborhood Arts supports artists and 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. The program focuses on the five communities of the Housing GSO plan: Dudley Heights, Glenwood, Kings Forest, Mill District, and Random Woods. The neighborhoods chosen for the program were identified for reinvestment in the Housing GSO plan.