Project Backboard restoring art at French Fort basketball court
Chickasaw Heritage Park’s basketball court will soon be restored as part of Project Backboard. Since the court’s original makeover, the organization has more experience making the designs durable and the artist, Nina Chanel Abney, has become acclaimed. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Former Memphis Grizzlies community relations employee Dan Peterson is making an impact by reviving forlorn basketball courts, public spaces that bring people together.
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Elle Perry
A native Memphian, Elle Perry has earned graduate degrees from the University of Memphis and Maryland Institute College of Art. She’s written for publications including the Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Flyer and High Ground News, and previously served as coordinator of The Teen Appeal.
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