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Press Review
Youth Artists Are Painting Gorgeous Murals Inside New York City Public Housing
City Lab - Inside the new Gerard Carter Community Center at the Stapleton Houses, Staten Island’s...
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Press Review
Wielding Paintbrushes, Not Spray Cans, at Bronx Housing Project
New York Times - Since February, a group of Castle Hill youths has been meeting two nights a week...
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Blog Post
Five Public Housing Developments. One City Transformed.
Last month, five teams of youth artists across the city joined a movement to transform their home...
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Press Release
Groundswell, the New York City Housing Authority, and Council Member Ritchie Torres Bring New “Public Art / Public Housing” Initiative to Castle Hill Development
Through this initiative, Groundswell is engaging a total of 200 young adult NYCHA residents ages ...
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Press Release
Aby Rosen’s 11 Howard Teams Up With Groundswell And Master Artist Mentor Jeff Koons
11 Howard, real estate mogul and RFR co-founder Aby Rosen’s latest venture in SoHo, will showcase...
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New York City Is Paying Public Housing Residents to Paint Murals
Smithsonian Magazine - Young tenants will create public art that captures social issues at five h...
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Blog Post
A Visual Way To Learn
What happens to a Groundswell mural after the paint dries? Last year, Groundswell in collaboratio...
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Press Review
New City Program Brings Art by Public Housing’s Own Residents to its Walls
The Observer - From their toxic mold to their trenchant architecture, New York City housing proje...
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Blog Post
A Long Way From Home
This summer, a team of young men tackled the relationship between police and young men of color i...
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A First Step to Ending Street Harassment
Groundswell and twenty young women fought back this summer with a 200-foot-long mural in Bedford-...
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Annual Report
FY14 Annual Report
Featuring 47 projects completed between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014.
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Press Release
In Anti-Catcalling Mural, Young Women Declare: “I Object to Objectification”
This summer, on the side of a Food Bazaar Supermarket in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a team of young wome...
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Press Release
Young Men of Color Navigate Tense Police-Civilian Relations through Mural
“I Just Want To Come Home” declares a new mural in Bushwick on a Food Bazaar Supermarket, painted...
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Blog Post
Developing Our Activist Voices
Today, teams of youth artists enter a critical moment of their Summer Leadership Institute: they ...
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Blog Post
From Tech Equity to Badging
How does the tech world impact an arts and social justice organization like Groundswell? Last mon...
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Amplify Youth Activism to Empower Us All
What is the voice of an activist? This summer, upwards of 140 youth will discover and amplify the...
