Walking on Color – Street Art Walk

Public art, whether it’s graffiti or park sculpture, can often act as a city’s visual voice. What does Raleigh have to say?

This Street Art Walk starts at CAM on Martin and West and meanders through the Arts District then up towards Nash Square. Along the way, you’ll see and learn about colorful wall murals, street art, and sculptures. You’ll also be invited to interact with others and reflect upon how creativity transforms our lives and what it means when a city’s creativity is impacted, empowered, or stifled.

This week’s guides are Greg Whitt & Annelies Gentile.

Greg is an award-winning facilitator and arts-educator teaching applied philosophy through music in corporations, congregations, communities, and classrooms. Greg is founder of the Raleigh Drum Circle and hyper-active in the local arts community.  He is also a graduate of NC State University and holds a graduate certificate in Transformative Leadership from the Maryland University of Integrative Health. He has called Raleigh home since 1986. You can find him online at www.drumforchange.com, in a hammock, or perhaps behind a brew of one sort of another in locally-owned establishments throughout the city.

Annelies is an executive integrative life and leadership coach, speaker, author and artist with a masters in coaching and a knack for poking in a good way. Her gift of presence and loving interruption gently calls you “back to center” to notice life as it is. Through inspiring retreats and conferences, conversations and insights, she wields artful tools for perspective, progress and growth to nurture and coach you through change. Annelies has lived in Raleigh since 1985 and has insights into what Raleigh was like “way-back when” and has long-time relationships with a network of fellow Raleigh artists which makes her walks deep and interesting. Learn more about Annelies her coaching at www.conduitforchange.com and her art at www.anneliesgentile.com