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About SEEK Raleigh
SEEK Raleigh is an experimental public art program by Raleigh Arts that engages the community through public art in City of Raleigh Parks, greenways, and/or community spaces.
Artist Mark Brown, photo by Jaylan Rhea
low bearing fruit in a field of dreams
Artist Mark Brown's artwork and the materials used in its creation serve as a metaphor for the idiom “hoop dreams,” encapsulating the relentless pursuit of playing basketball at the professional level. The sculptural elements in the installation utilize salvaged and reclaimed materials relevant to the sport, such as rims, pallets, reclaimed wood, basketballs, and steel chains. These materials evoke both the sentiment of the ambitious pursuit of the dream and the barriers that undermine its realization. The installation will be on view at Green Road park starting from mid-April to late May 2025.
"Asian Joy" Mural by Ina Liu, Isabel Lu, and Sophie Tô.
Asian Joy Mural
Ina Liu, Isabel Lu, and Sophie Tô created the Asian Joy mural on a wall adjacent to Union Station at the end of West Street in downtown Raleigh. This community-driven project celebrates the experiences and joy of Asian Americans in North Carolina. It explores the intersection of Asianness and Southernness, highlighting their impact on the well-being and community of Asian Americans.
The Grid Project
The Grid Project is a Raleigh-based arts collective comprised of artists Daniel Kelly, Jean Gray Mohs, Pete Sack, and Lamar Whidbee. Over the course of a year, the project will feature exhibitions, engagements, and workshops, utilizing donated indoor and outdoor spaces. Its goal is to cultivate a vibrant, inclusive, and supportive art scene in Raleigh, providing artists with opportunities to experiment and interact with the public and one another.
Aspora artwork at Chavis Community Center
A(spora) by Jazsalyn
Jazsalyn’s A(spora) reinterprets Afro Atlantic history through augmented scends of the Gullah Geechee Corridor- a region of cultural significance to West African descendants, recognized as a National Heritage area, stretching along the coastal plains from North Carolina to Florida. The digital landscape of A(spora) renders microscopic imagery of Indigenous African plant species, such as indigo (indigofera tinctoria) and okra (abelmoschus caillei), to transform the corridor through collage, artificial intelligence, and 3D simulation technologies. Experienced as an interactive digital installation, A(spora) invites viewers to navigate its digital landscape. The artwork in on view on the exterior of Chavis Community Center.
Find Your Glimmer
In July 2025, Artist Candy Carver will install an immersive multi-media, black light-activated art installation that envelops the viewer in a warm hug of affirmations. It's a reminder that art can be fun and meaningful at the same time. Find Your Glimmer takes people inside the artist's heart and head and brings joy and sunshine. In addition to experiencing the artwork, folks will have the chance to participate in events throughout the week of July 11.
Taylor Allison
Taylor Allison's SEEK Raleigh project is a soft sculpture inspired by the Carolina Lupine (Thermopsis Villosa), a native herbaceous perennial with upright clumping bulbs. The flower's base was bare in the beginning, but the audience performed the “blooming” by placing small, separate bulbs of their choosing into open slots of the tall base sculpture. The artwork will be on view until the end of April 2025.
Raleigh's Smallest Park by Katie Stewart
Brood Awakening
Katie Stewart and Jay Ross, a Raleigh-based creative team, collaborated to bring the community a unique medley of art, environmental education, and culinary experiences. Their interactive art walk of native wetland flora, fauna, and fungi inspired by the vibrant ecology of Southeast Raleigh’s wetlands at Walnut Creek Wetland Park occurred in the Fall of 2024.
La Ceiba
Martín Wannam's SEEK Raleigh Project "La Ceiba" was displayed in downtown Raleigh on Sept. 15 at La Fiesta del Pueblo.
"La Ceiba," inspired by the sacred tree, is a 50-foot pink and yellow inflatable with a futuristic haze that aims to spread radical hope and evoke childhood memories and celebration for immigrant communities and queer folks in North Carolina.
SEEK Raleigh | Tessellate at Dix Park | Oliver Lewis
SEEK Raleigh | We Art a Village | Justin Perry
SEEK Raleigh | Día de Oakwood | Peter Marin
SEEK Raleigh | Noir Bizarre | I Have A Dream Pop Festival
SEEK Raleigh | The Purple Flower Black and Unknown Barbs
SEEK Raleigh 2023 | Nyssa Collins
"VITAL Health", Michael S.Williams and Stacey L. Kirby, performance for SEEK Raleigh, 2020. Photo by Caroline Cockrell.
Four Heads For Bragg Street, by Jerstin Crosby, was a site-specific installation along the chain-link fence at Bragg Street Park facing Person Street.
Pieces of Grief is a seven-segment audio project by Felix Obelix. As a sonic meditation on grief and loss, it integrates field recordings, anonymous voicemails, archival interviews, and original music. It is intended to be listened to in quiet contemplation.
SEEK Raleigh | Oracle Machine | Julia Caston
