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Program

Public Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs)

Period of Performance

4/1/2020 - 9/30/2021

Funding Totals

$30,000.00 (approved)
$30,000.00 (awarded)

Hanging Tree Guitars

FAIN: GA-272638-20

Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. (Hillsborough, NC 27278-2111)
Timothy Duffy (Project Director: March 2020 to October 2022)

To support the creation and touring of the exhibit "Freeman Vines: Hanging Tree Guitars," a unique interdisciplinary presentation of the African-American experience in the rural South centered on the art and words of Freeman Vines. Vines is a luthier living in rural, eastern North Carolina who uses hand tools to craft evocative guitars from repurposed timber, including wood from a felled tree on which an African American man named Oliver Moore was lynched in 1930.