History Museum Wants Your Face for Community Portrait

Community members are invited to be a part of a ONE by ONE Community Portrait as photographer Tom Strykowicz returns to the Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., from 2-6 pm, July 8-10. Visitors are invited to pose alone or in a group for a unique portrait and receive a free copy to take home. Together the portraits will make up a new ONE by ONE photo mosaic of our community for display in the museum.

Styrkowicz has produced ONE by ONE Community Portraits at museums across the country, including at the Indiana Historical Society, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - and, in 2018, here at the Greensboro History Museum. The purpose of his community portraits, he says, is to help show "that we are not alone, that we are part of a larger world."

"Tom's photographs are wonderful and surprising," says Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart. "He has a way of capturing the personalities of individuals and groups alike. When those portraits come together in a huge wall of faces, it makes you see the community in a new way."

The ONE by ONE Community Portrait is part of America 250 Guilford County and the Greensboro History Museum's America250 community programming. As the country marks its 250th anniversary, the museum invites residents to have fun exploring the past, reflect on our shared history and be part of a picture of our city today.