Peter Oliver was a remarkable man, and Creative Corridors Coalition is working to ensure Oliver’s life and legacy are celebrated. In close collaboration with historians, Oliver’s descendants, and other stakeholders, Creative Corridors Coalition has developed plans to create the Peter Oliver Pavilion Gallery. On Monday, June 17th, the City Council of Winston-Salem unanimously approved the designated land for the project.
Peter Oliver was a literate, bilingual potter and brickmaker from a Moravian community now known as Winston-Salem. Having been born into enslavement, Oliver signed to buy his freedom in Lancaster, PA, where laws prohibited bringing enslaved individuals into the state. Oliver returned to Salem as a freedman, where he lived with his family and farmed four acres until his death on September 28, 1810. The Pavilion Gallery, named in his honor, will be built on the land Oliver once farmed.
Walter Hood, a world-renown African-American landscape architect designed the Pavilion Gallery. Learn more about the Peter Oliver and plans for the Pavilion Gallery HERE.
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