Projects

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  • 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...

  • Stages of Greenpoint

    Beginning in October 2013, 24 youth artists came together to celebrate Greenpoint through the arts. Over the course of the project, the youth participants got to know the Greenpoint neighborhood by...

  • Brooklyn: Here and Now

    In 2014, four Groundswell youth apprentices came together to create a mural at the Kings County Criminal Court on Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn. Specifically located in the office of Brooklyn Jus...

  • Care. No Matter What.

    Court-involved youth participating in Groundswells Segue program partnered with artists Crystal Bruno and Jules Joseph, Groundswell youth leaders, and Planned Parenthood of New York City to comp...

  • What You See is Not Who I Am

    Through this project, Groundswell partnered with ArtWorks for Freedom (AWFF), an innovative non-profit founded by award-winning photographer Kay Chernush, to create What You See Is Not Who I Am,...

  • No Nos Vamos

    Each week, a Groundswell team met with senior citizens twice for two hours to plan and execute our mural. The team began the process with a combination of reviewing the history of Los Sures and sha...

  • Renewal and Rebirth

    Renewal and Rebirth was made by and for the students of East Brooklyn Community High School. The rich symbolism embodies the hopes the artists have for themselves and for their peers. First, ...

  • The Game of Not Playing

    The Game of Not Playing was developed in partnership with the GED Plus Regional High School in the Bronx. Inspired by their own educational experiences, the student artists explored the meani...

  • Justice Mandala II

    In spring 2013, court-involved youth participating in Groundswells Segue program partnered with the New York City Department of Correction to complete a series of Tibetan mandalas for the exteri...

  • We Rose Above the Challenge

    We Rose Above the Challenge was created as part of Recovery Diaspora, a collaborative citywide public art installation created by Swoon, together with youth from Red Hook, Coney Island, State...

  • You Can Take Our Homes But You Can't Take Our Hearts

    You Can Take Our Homes But You Cant Take Our Hearts was created as part of Recovery Diaspora, a collaborative citywide public art installation created by Swoon, together with youth from Re...

  • Coney Island Rising Up

    Coney Island Rising Up was created as part of Recovery Diaspora, a collaborative citywide public art installation created by Swoon, together with youth from Red Hook, Coney Island, Staten Isl...

  • Beautifying Riverbank

    Beautifying Riverbank was created by Groundswell in partnership with the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and NYC Department of Environmental Protection.

  • Bronx Rising

    Bronx Rising presents a community-inspired vision for Hunts Point as a neighborhood on the rise, much as the phoenix rises from the ashes to achieve new life. In the mural, a central figure o...

  • Growing Gowanus

    Groundswell was commissioned by Whole Foods Market to create a series of murals for the exterior of its inaugural Brooklyn store, located at Third and 3rd in Gowanus.

  • My New Rochelle

    Through a partnership with the New Rochelle Arts Council and New Rochelle School District, Groundswell facilitated the collaborative research, design, and creation of a public art piece in New Rochelle.