The African-American community has a long history in Berea, but not everybody knows about it.

The Berea Arts Council and a nonprofit called Our Land of Promise are trying to change that by bringing a history and heritage exhibit to the council gallery.

We went there to hear from two people who worked to make it a reality.

More in tonight's weekly Arts and Culture segment we call Tapestry.

It's our shared history.

All of us, no matter your race, your background, the black history, and bury a lot of it is untold.

So this was just a great opportunity to really put that on display.

About two years ago, when I first started here, one of our community members, Cathy Williams, approached me about some ideas that she just kind of wanted to throw around for exhibit ideas.

And one of her ideas was how do we show Brave Black communities and the history that comes behind that?

So not our typical visual art exhibit, but more gearing towards a humanities exhibit.

It just seemed like the perfect fit of how can we bring these different parts of communities together, the arts world and the humanities world of wanting to preserve history and bring it to life.

They'll see the school pictures showing history throughout time right here in Berea at the original Middletown school.

They'll see history in so many forms and fashion, and most of our items have stories to tell with them.

We had to reach out to descendants in the community to get these items.

You're going to see different photos, old photos, family heirlooms, artifacts, some history.

Some of the quotes that we've done with oral narrations from the people that were either once words around are still around, but just very, very various things that's been in the household of these families.

When I do oral narrations, I'm like a kid in a candy store just hearing the stories of these descendants.

For me, it's about making that connection and that foundation.

If you think about our elders, our relatives, once, once they pass those memories, go to and those arrow and all narrations help with that foundation.

But I've been doing it for the past two years.

I've traveled even outside of the state to connect with descendants that are from this community to check in their own narrations.

Bria is pretty well known for Berea College's history, with the black community here.

But one thing we've really highlighted here is how separate those two things actually are.

And while they do play together a lot, there's two totally different stories there of the community members that were the farmers and the backbone of our community in ways we don't realize.

And the college had a lot of importance in how we deal or how we dealt with racial tension and segregation and how it was approach, I think as a whole and Boreas where those combined.

But it's important to tell these stories beyond the college.

And I think for hopefully Kentucky to see broader that their community as well probably has so much black history that they don't even realize that because we don't talk about it.

We've had so much positive feedback after the opening.

We've had a little bit over 200 people come through our doors, which is record breaking numbers for our gallery personally.

So people want to see and they want to learn, and I think they're very excited that they've been able to do that right here in their own town.

The exhibit opened on September 14th and closes Saturday, November the second.