Caroline Rutledge Armijo
environmental artist and advocate
Caroline Rutledge Armijo is an environmental artist, advocate, collaborator and mother living in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Caroline enjoys building community by incorporating storytelling, history, art and faith practices into advocacy. Caroline believes that creative placemaking provides opportunities to restore environmental justice at the local community level.
Caroline is the ninth generation of her family to live in Stokes County. Since 2010, Caroline has advocated with the Belews Creek community around living with coal ash and threats of fracking.
Caroline is a founding member of Alliance of Carolinians Together (ACT) Against Coal Ash, a state-wide group that advocated for the nation’s largest clean up of 80 million tons of coal ash in North Carolina.
Caroline is the Founding Director of The Lilies Project, a National Creative Placemaking Fund grant funded by ArtPlace America. She collaborated with scientists at NC A&T State University to make art out of coal ash and created a cultural tour around the town of Walnut Cove.
From 2011-2012, Caroline led the Downtown DC Kids campaign to build a playground in Downtown Washington, DC, which resulted in the 2021 opening of Franklin Park after a $21 million and restoration of Pershing Park.
Learn more at theliliesproject.org.
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