Projects

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  • CAMBA: Where You Can

    CAMBA: Where You Can was designed and fabricated at CAMBAs Flagstone Family Center to promote a positive image vision of family, home, stability, growth, change, and community. The Flagsto...

  • Knowledge is Power

    The Gateway to Tomorrow is a celebration of the hidden treasures within the Brownsville community, namely its school and students. The participants of the artist team are students of Brownsvi...

  • Be Aware of What’s There

    The traffic safety banner residency program, sponsored by NYC DOT Safety Education in collaboration with the Groundswell Community Mural Project, engaged New York City 6th 8th grade students in...

  • Reason

    In “Reason,” the final of the three projects at PS 41, three panels display instances when students are making decisions.

  • Powerful Beyond

    Groundswell worked in collaboration with the Passages Academy at Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn to develop a three-panel interior mural in the spring of 2015.

  • Wall of Reflect

    Every person in a community should be recognized for his or her contributions, but there are often not enough opportunities to reflect on the people who make a neighborhood vibrant. Through the com...

  • Respect: Respect Yourself, Your Peers, Your Elders, The Spaces We Share.

    Groundswell partnered with SCO Family of Services and PS 41 to complete three murals for the school to generate one large project. Each section focused on either respect, responsibility, or reason....

  • The Women of Brownsville: Telling Our Story

    The artist team behind this project, consisting of only women, explored the hidden treasures of Brownsvilles industrious women leaders through The Women of Brownsville: Telling Our Story. ...

  • Carnival of Aspirations

    Learning has been proven fun through a Carnival of color, vibrancy, and community engagement with youth artists. With three monumental murals already installed on the exterior of the school, ...

  • Responsibility

    Groundswell partnered with SCO Family of Services and PS 41 to complete three murals for the school to generate one large project. Each section focused on either respect, responsibility, or reason....

  • The Key to Success

    Through a multi-project mural collaboration, Groundswell and EBCHS transformed the exterior of the school to mirror the positive transformations taking place within. The Key to Success, th...

  • Gender Violence and the Culture That Perpetuates It

    As part of the STARS Citywide Girls Initiative, an initiative funded through the New York City Council, a team of young women facilitated the research, design and creation of a mural to raise publi...

  • Envision Your Future

    This mural was the second in a series to bring the learning that takes place inside East Brooklyn Community High School to the outside community. The theme of this project asked students to envi...

  • P.I.C.T.U.R.E.S Prison Industrial Complex: Tyranny Undermining Rights, Education, And Society

    Groundswells all-male Making History mural team made up of young men in Groundswells Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) some with a prior involvement with the justice system collabo...

  • It’s Not A Dream If You Will It

    Installed on Herzl Street, It's Not A Dream If You Will It is inspired by Theodore Herzl's famous quote If you will it, it is no dream. and encourages psychological transfor...

  • Moving Forward

    Created by 17 young adult artists and 2 professional artists, this mural helps to create an inviting gateway at the entryway to this historic Brooklyn neighborhood. The text-based image captures th...