Nelson Ford a.k.a. ‘Carty’ would have been 90 on Jan 18th, 2024. Martin Luther King Day 2004, the WPAA-TV Board approved a motion to name the gallery in honor of his artistry and work. Nelson was part of the WPAA – TV and Community Media Center and the Wallingford Coalition for Unity family. He and his wife Ruthie served with the unity-coalition Founder Wilbert ‘Robbie’ Robinson (2006). The dedication story is published here. For the history of our integrated gallery, go here. To learn more about the collection, go here.

If we are open, the Gallery is too.

WPAA-TV is a drop-off location for Master’s Manna Food Pantry. To learn how to donate to programs serving housing and food insecure populations and receive the photobook StreetshotZ check out this blog post.

April 1, 2019 | Ongoing | ‘StreetshotZ’ by Charles Buzinsky

StreetshotZ
StreetshotZ Fund No Expiration Date donations program supporting housing and food insecure people.
Community Impact Award Winning Story of the birth of the permanent collection: StreetshotZ

Art can both capture our pain and deliver us from it simultaneously; the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.
~Braving the Wilderness
Brene Brown Ph.D., LMSW

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