Revisiting Brownsville Mural Tour & Art Making Experience

Join us on Friday, June 8, 2018, for a Mural Tour & Art Making Experience entitled “Revisiting Brownsville”. The tour will highlight the transformative murals created through the two-year (2014-2016) initiative called Transform/Restore: Brownsville which was a collaboration of the New York City Department of Probation, the Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District, and Groundswell. This participatory public art project was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town program and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Initiative.

The five murals of “Transform/Restore: Brownsville” not only encourage all Brownsville residents to honor themselves but also inspires all of New York to celebrate this engaged community. As one youth artist stated, the process provided everyone the opportunity to gain wisdom: “Through the painting of this mural, the elders’ voices from the community were made much more visible because their concerns were for bettering the younger generations and having more activities for them.” By bringing to life the beauty and strength of Brownsville, Groundswell artists truly celebrated the community’s greatest hidden treasures—the neighborhood’s community members.

The tour will begin and end at Groundswell’s Main Office located at 540 President Street, Brooklyn, NY and include an art-making experience using information gathered on the tour to revisit the transformative process experienced in the creation of the featured murals.

Photos from this event can be found on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1955858591115660.1073741909.105166399518231&type=1&l=37b8c07618