Shared Experience

A joint Community Art Reflection project has been established by Chapel Hill Community Arts and Culture, Chapel Hill Public Library, Orange County Arts Commission, Carrboro Recreation, Parks, & Cultural Resources, and UNC’s Arts Everywhere to honor the hope and resilience of our community. This community art project encourages residents in Orange County to contemplate the events, changes and emotions of the past year and express those experiences, challenges and hopeful moments on slips of paper that will become the foundation of a beautiful community art installation.

Your History is Carolina’s History: Collecting Stories About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learn more about this meaningful project and share your own stories with the library using this online form.
The UNC Story Archive is interested in non-COVID-19 stories too. The University Libraries has launched the UNC Story Archive as a way to gather and preserve authentic voices from the Carolina community. The University Archives at the Wilson Special Collections Library created and oversees the project.
The Well is seeking stories for their COVID Diaries series. You may submit your stories by emailing thewell@unc.edu.

The Well recently asked University employees for their hopes, concerns and questions about returning to campus to work. Read some thoughts about the return to campus.
More work to be done: Nearly 500 University employees attended the June 22 Employee Forum Town Hall, with many expressing concerns about going back to campus.
Read about your co-workers’ experiences living during the pandemic in the COVID Diaries series.