Projects
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We Are Here to Awaken From the Illusion of Our Separateness
In summer of 1998, in partnership with local faith-based community group, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, fifteen young people worked together to create a mural around the theme of spiritual leaders for peace and justice.
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PARADISE: LOST AND RESURRECTED
In 1994, at age 13, Nicholas Naquan Heyward, Jr was shot and killed by police while playing with some friends in his building in the Gowanus Houses in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
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The Offer of Calm Amidst the Onslaught
Painted in a single room occupancy (SRO) hotel for people living with AIDS, this project was created by a group of HIV positive adults with histories of incarceration, drug use and prostitution.
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Everyone Holds a World: Young Women's Sources of Strength and Protection
This mural was designed by young women living in the Red Hook East and West Public Housing Projects. It depicts their sources of strength including real images of friends, family, community teachers, clergy, and public leaders.
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The Golden Birdcage
Groundswells first project organized Latino youth living in Williamsburg. Through numerous drawing sessions the group generated the mural's theme, How Our People Left Everything Behind to Str...
