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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.
Yellow weaving from recycled materials by Artist Kelsey Mereck Wagner
Chromophobia
Artist Kelsey Merreck Wagner is creating a series of weavings from trash and recycled materials that will be suspended in the lobby at Abbotts Creek Community Center. She has also created a large loom that the community is invited to weave into with scrap material to co-create an artwork. The loom will remain in the lobby until September 2025 when the suspended weavings are installed.
The artwork, Chromophobia, consists of 4 weavings, all over 50 feet long. The woven textiles are made from recycled materials, including plastic bags, product wrappers, fiber waste, old clothing, housewares, holiday decorations, and technology cords.
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.
Artist Rendering of the Concept Design for the Artwork Installation
Air Chrysallis
A Temporary Public Art Piece, by artist Patrizia Ferreira, invites the viewer to slow down and reflect upon the state of our environment, the beauty around us and how to best preserve it. Made entirely of plastic bags, many found at one of Walnut Creek Preserve regular clean ups, is an homage to the handmade, to the slow work of artisanal communities across the world, to the power of collaborations and the infinite diversity of natural life. Come be a part of the process or see it unveiled and installed in the Spring of 2026.
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
