Preview | Making Sense Backwards: The Nick Bragg Story
Preview: 10/9/2025 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
After completing 25 commissioned murals, 87-year-old NC artist Nick Bragg embarks on a new journey.
After completing 25 commissioned murals, Nick Bragg, NC artist and founding Executive Director of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, embarks at age 87 on a new journey: painting his own story. He grapples with his creative muses and the darkness within himself as he seeks to make sense of his life by looking at his past.
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Preview | Making Sense Backwards: The Nick Bragg Story
Preview: 10/9/2025 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
After completing 25 commissioned murals, Nick Bragg, NC artist and founding Executive Director of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, embarks at age 87 on a new journey: painting his own story. He grapples with his creative muses and the darkness within himself as he seeks to make sense of his life by looking at his past.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipNick was definitely the right person to develop a museum.
Your responsibility is to make a place where something is really happening.
I'm just curious about where creativity comes from all my life.
And I've painted 25 murals, and they're all over the state.
Nick's an artist.
He has personality traits that come forth in his paintings, his extroverted expression.
If you're doing a mural, I'm trying to tell a story here of my life.
And so the more I dig around, the more comes out.
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