Projects

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  • Passing Wisdom, Planting Seeds

    This summer, a team of young women artists illuminated and celebrated the power of women of color within both the public and private spheres through a new mural in Crown Heights. Their mural, entit...

  • Love is the Main Ingredient / Amor es el Ingrediente Principal

    Love is the Main Ingredient / Amor es el Ingrediente Principal was painted by Comunilifes Life is Precious group, a suicide prevention group for young Latina women. The mural is housed in ...

  • INpower

    Groundswell, New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, and Dominican Women's Development Center collaborated to bring a new mural at the George Washington Educational Complex. INpower wa...

  • Viva the Healthy City

    Groundswell, New York City FC, and PS 24 collaborated to create a beautiful new mural organized and designed by female students to enhance the schools new soccer field. To create this mural, 3...

  • Boatema (She Brings Strength)

    Created by a team of all young women, Boatema (She Brings Strength) centers around a growth and transformation narrative. Both ends of the mural have a hand holding a cracked open seed that i...

  • Respect is the Strongest Compliment

    Brought to national attention with groups such as HollaBack! and Stop Street Harassment, street harassment affects the feeling of safety many women experience on the street. The majority of wome...

  • The Freedom Within

    Designed by a talented team of young women at the Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island, the mural imagines restorative futures for themselves and other women who have been or are incarcerated. To...

  • My Sister’s Keeper

    My Sisters Keeper illustrates the unique challenges faced by women on their road to self-sufficiency and recovery from addiction. The artist team was comprised of women in recovery, and to...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Guided Gateways

    Young female artists, working in partnership with Groundswell and Food Bazaar Supermarket, created Guided Gateways, a monumental mural designed to spark dialogue about reproductive health in ...

  • Women in the Park

    For Women in the Park, a group of six young women from Lehman High School worked with Montefiore Medical Center to create a panel that would explore womens empowerment in health. The stude...

  • Mother of All

    “Mother of All” depicts a surrealist image of a reclining mother and baby. The mother’s braids and blanket transform into an undulating quilt-like landscape with trees, cities and rivers.

  • The Peace of Womenkind

    Groundswell was commissioned by Montefiore Medical Center to engage young women residents of Horizons Juvenile Center in the creation of two new murals for the inside of two Montefiore OB/GYN clinics.

  • For Those Who Speak and Those Who Have Yet To Speak

    For Those Who Speak and Those Who Have Yet To Speak celebrates women as international community through representations of global struggles of and progress by women.

  • Truth Be Sold

    Truth Be Sold was completed by twelve young women led by artists Katie Yamasaki and Menshahat Ebron in partnership with the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation.