The Charlotte Museum of Hitory is leading the preservation effort to save the historic Siloam School, a schoolhouse built in the early 20th century as an education safe haven for African Americans. Built City, our philanthropic illustration project, along with numerous community partners, hosted an art event to raise preservation funds for the Save Silaom School project. Built City raised $1,500 towards the preservation of Siloam School from the sale of our historic illustration series.

Website: Save Siloam School

Watch: City of Charlotte Gift

The Charlotte Museum of History, lead by its current Executive Director Adria Focht, is a non-profit organization spearheading the interpretation and preservation of Charlotte's diverse history, enriching the community through shared understanding of the past and inspiring dialogue about the future. The museum also leads a community effort to preserve the historic Siloam School, a schoolhouse built in the early 20th century as an education safe haven for African Americans.

Website: Charlotte Museum of History

Watch: "Preservation Charlotte"

Built City is an illustration project with a social good mission. The project is dedicated to supporting natural heritage conservation and historic preservation by creating original illustrations of historical and beautiful places, such as monuments and national parks. Transforming these original illustrations into purchasable physical purodcuts such as archival art prints, a portion of each sale goes towards supporting historic preservation and natural heritage conservation projects.

Website: Built City | Original Illustrations of Beautiful Places

Online Shop: Shop Built City

International House is a grass-roots non-profit organization with a mission to promote international understanding and to serve immigrants in need. Since 1981, they have offered numerous events and workshops such as foreign-language conversation hours, cultural events, an international book club, citizen diplomacy programs, an international women’s group, language classes, free citizenship workshops, legal services for low-income immigrants, and more.

Website: International House

Animation: "Chinese Culture Lights the World", "Serenity"