The visual arts continue to play an important role in the community capacity building programs developed and supported by BnESCO. Self-reference, story telling and cultural continuity are areas explored in a series of collaborations by artists Barry A. Massey (a close friend of Tryon Doll Maker, Andrea Miller) and Kipp McIntyre. Massey and McIntyre use the shapes, forms and colors of the Tryon Dolls made by Ms. Miller to create large scale "community" paintings. The collaboration is part of a BnESCO demonstration project on the importance of the visual arts in helping communicate issues of empowerment and potential in neighborhood economic development and youth engagement in underutilized communities.
