{"id":632205,"date":"2026-09-22T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:00:13","slug":"new-sculpture-honoring-black-artisans-to-be-unveiled-thursday-in-downtown-new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632205\/","title":{"rendered":"New sculpture honoring Black artisans to be unveiled Thursday in downtown New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new sculpture in downtown New Bern is set to honor the contributions of African American artisans who helped build the city.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Georgie Nakima and two other artists spent months working on the project. The finished sculpture is now in Wilson Park at the corner of South Front and Craven streets.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling is scheduled for this Thursday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur futures are very much connected with our history, and it&#8217;s important that we learn and have curiosity about how we came to be as a city and how we see how integrated our lives have been and will continue to be,\u201d Nakima said.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is inspired by the book \u201cCrafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new sculpture in downtown New Bern is set to honor the contributions of African American artisans who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-632205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}