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Artist in Residence: R Stein Wexler
R. Stein Wexler was selected to develop the Western Corridor public art plan as part of an Artist-in-Residence between Spring of 2024 and Spring of 2025. A practicing public artist trained as an urban planner, Stein’s projects are research-based, community-engaged, and critical of dominant structures. She creates place-based work in collaboration with local communities to tell their stories. Shaped by needs and constraints, her work results in gatherings, process documentation, immersive and interactive installations, workshops, exhibitions, and policy change.
Stein holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her recent projects include a series of installations investigating alternative temporalities in Raleigh, a series of neighborhood safety interventions in Durham, and an ongoing multi-phase remembrance process in Berlin, Germany.
As part of her work, Stein attended BRT community meetings and held targeted one-on-ones with City planners and stakeholders. She also conducted several Bus Stop Listening Sessions along the corridor where she engaged riders and passersby. This let her identify several themes that should be considered in the art. She also identified six character zones and additional placemaking opportunities along the route.
