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At the Durham Powerful Arts Collective (DurmPAC), we engage in work that builds formative experiences for young artists in our community by establishing community connections and facilitating artist spaces. We have found our community through Black, Brown, Indigenous, and/or LGBTQIA+ folks within the 919 area.

Youth in Durham have spaces for artistic expression and engagement where they receive the nurturing love, healing, and support needed to shape and thrive in their communities.

DurmPAC members are adventurous, open-minded young people who create new opportunities to engage with their community and refine their skills authentically. We exuberantly celebrate joy, diversity, art, the perspectives of queer, black, and brown people, and our home of Durham. We are a team and flourish under teamwork, treating each other with respect at all times and resolving our differences through loving accountability and simple democracy. We thrive under a horizontal structure, choosing our contributions according to individual skills and capacity for commitment.

Projects

Uproot: BIPOC Visions of our Food System

- a partnership with the Committee On Racial Equity of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at NC State, celebrating and sharing their Art as Method research.

Haptic Happenings, 2024

- an exhibition of youth art work exploring identity through works that invoke the since of touch and tactile sensations. On view at the Durham Art Guild's Truist Gallery August 6 - September 30.