Exhibit Dates:
11/2/2004 -
4/30/2005
Created by Gabriel Cumming, featuring the perspectives of residents across the rural communities of the Southern Piedmont.
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Rural Voices and Visions: Local Communities Speak Out About Their Landscapes
North Carolina's Southern Piedmont region is changing rapidly - suburban development is spreading out from Charlotte and other urban areas. Yet despite the changes, the region is still largely rural.
Who lives in these rural communities? What do they value about the place where they live? And what do they envision for their landscapes in the future? Through interviews and photographs, Rural Voices and Visions documents and explores the relationships between the people and the land in the Southern Piedmont.
An extension of the documentary initiative originally titled "Perspectives on Land," the exhibit has been created by Gabriel Cumming, and supported by the LandTrust for Central North Carolina, the Catawba Lands Conservancy, and Levine Museum of the New South.
Designed to not only document, but also to create a regional dialogue on issues of conservation and development, Rural Voices and Visions gathered input from residents of four rural communities between 2001 - 2004. The areas represented include: the Uwharrie area of Montgomery County, western Rowan County, eastern Catawba County, and Stanley Creek area of Gaston County. |
