10/30/2026
Creative Greensboro’s Neighborhood Arts Program celebrated powerful new community‑informed artwork created with events hosted by our partners New Arrivals Institute (NAI) and Greensboro Mutual Aid (GMA).
NAI chose local artist Sachi Dely to create vibrant bus shelter art that reflects the stories, cultures, and lived experiences of their clients—immigrant and refugee families from around the world. Sachi’s designs center three themes that emerged from community engagement sessions: food and culture, women and nature, and peace and unity. These images bring color, pride, and global stories of hope and home to our city’s everyday landscape in west, central and east Greensboro. The outdoor celebration included music and poetry, with posters of each bus shelter’s artwork on display.
GMA chose to honor the history of the East White Oak Community Center, noted on the National Register of Historic Sites and originally founded as a neighborhood school in 1916. The projects included a Little Free Library made from a reclaimed school locker, a mural inside Peeler Recreation Center that depicts the Center’s beginnings as a school, and artwork on the basketball court backboards at Bywoods Park—each piece rooted in community memory and local history. Event attendees enjoyed a presentation and artist talk at Peeler Rec Center from the artist team: Myles Wilder, Aminah Coppage and Madison Miller, and a history tour at East White Community Center, where the Little Free Library was unveiled.
Together, this new artwork highlights what Neighborhood Arts is all about: creativity shaped by community voices, shared histories brought to life through art, and Greensboro residents connecting across culture, place, and story. Creative Greensboro thanks program partners Greensboro Transit Authority and the Greensboro Parks and Recreation for their support.
