WUNC: “A photography exhibit that was canceled by UNC Chapel Hill is now open at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
The exhibit, “Tarred Healing,” was supposed to open in February at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
Durham-based photographer Cornell Watson explained his photos reflect the Black community in Chapel Hill.
“[Tarred Healing] was a mixture of documentary photos and conceptual photos that told a story about black spaces in a story form,” Watson said on WUNC’s Tested podcast. “[The photos talk] about those spaces, threaded through the healing process of the black community in and around Chapel Hill and the university.”
The Stone Center invited Watson to be a visiting artist and create an exhibit. The center and Watson hotly disagreed over which photos to include in his final exhibit. Eventually, the two parties reluctantly came to a consensus.”