2019 contributing artists and organizations include A Womb of Violet (fayemi shakur, Dr. Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Bimpé Fageyinbo, Margie Johnson, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Jasmine Mans, K Desireé Milwood, Kween Moore, Sheikia Norris, and Jillian Rock) in collaboration with Layqa Nuna Yawar (Newark, NJ) and Kelley Prevard (Atlantic City, NJ), Armisey Smith (Newark, NJ), Barat Foundation (Newark, NJ) with featured artist Sue Daly (Atlantic City, NJ), Daniela Puliti (Newark, NJ), Eirini Linardaki (Crete, Paris, and Newark, NJ) in collaboration with Discovery Charter School (Newark, NJ), Gabe Ribeiro (Newark, NJ/ New York, NY), GERALUZ (Newark, NJ/ New York, NY), HIMED (Mexico), Jo-El Lopez (Newark, NJ), Manuel Acevedo (Newark, NJ/Bronx, NY) in collaboration with the Jerry J. Gant Estate/Pink Dragon Artist Syndicate (East Orange, NJ), Nancy Saleme and Patricia Cazorla (Newark, NJ/New York, NY), Noelle Lorraine Williams (Newark, NJ), and the Rorshach Art Collective (Newark, NJ). The first phase was curated by Rebecca Pauline Jampol, co-director of Project for Empty Space and visiting professor at Rutgers University-Newark.
The inaugural phase is made possible by a generous sponsorship from The Sherwin Williams Company. The Sherwin Williams Company prioritizes initiatives such as this and has dedicated themselves to the Newark community, fueling initiatives such as the 2016 Gateways to Newark mural project. They have donated over 175 gallons of paint to the first phase, as well as product and support. Additional sponsors include Wilber’s Painting (Maplewood, NJ), Jerry’s Artist Outlet (West Orange, NJ), Hanini Group (Newark, NJ) and many local restaurants and organizations that have pledged meals and support for the artists at work.
A WOMB OF VIOLET, LAYQA NUNA YAWAR & KELLEY PREVARD
Magnitude and Bond
Location: 97 Halsey St. Newark
Magnitude and Bond is a 10 stories high collaborative mural located on Halsey Street in Newark’s historic downtown that features two key figures, Gladys Barker Grauer and Breya Knight, and imagery that celebrates their significant contributions to the Newark arts and poetry community, using visual language to provide a sense of intergenerational and communal connection as a unifying force and source of power and healing.
NOELLE LORRAINE WILLIAMS
To Be Seen
Location: Treat Place, Newark
To Be Seen is a street intervention that utilizes oversized carte de visite images of printed on PolyTab on a gold background of African American women from photography studios in Downtown Newark near the site on Treat Street and on Springfield Avenue. As an artist, Noelle Lorraine Williams’s work for the past 14 years focuses on utilizing African American women’s stories and images to interpret what it means to be American today. To Be Seen expands on her practice of “inserting” images of African American women and men into the Newark historical visual landscape.
HIMED & HOKZYN
MIGRATION IS THE AMERICAN WAY
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Using the figure of an adult single Black woman, the sketches are visually set accordingly to the period when the second Wave of Migration took place, showing different elements as symbolism, starting with women holding suitcases with the official colors from the state of New Jersey.
ARMISEY SMITH
The Natural World of the Lenape
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Smith’s mural, The Natural World of the Lenape illustrates indigenous plants used by the Lenni-Lenape peoples. She highlights wild plant foods like wild strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Alongside, the roots of cattail plants and water lilies sometimes eaten by Lenape; persimmons, cranberries, and wild plums.
GABE RIBEIRO
Newark is for Artists
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Gabe Ribeiro’s Newark is for Artists thoughtfully demarks space for artists’ pride and representation.
MANUEL ACEVEDO with PINK DRAGON SYNDICATE
The Gantalism Dedication
Location: Treat Place, Newark
The Gantalism Dedication mural is a celebration of Newark’s own artist, Jerry Gant a.k.a 2 Nasty Nas. Using a selection of Jerry’s most recent journal entries and renderings as source material, the proposed mural presents a visual narrative of the artist’s inner voice, socio-political identity, and metamorphosis from a graffiti artist to multi-disciplinary artist who worked to heighten the exposure of a fine art aesthetic in urban communities.
RORSHACH COLLECTIVE
Radiance
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Radiance represents a conceptual history of women in this City; specifically multidimensional dreamers, motivators, organizers, and agents of change. The woman presented symbolizes generations of unacknowledged Women of Color- this is a nod, a thank you- to their work, to their light... A light radiates from them.
JO-EL LOPEZ
The Guardian of the City
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Jo-el’s The Guardian of the City shows a Lenni-Lenape woman with her hands folded under her garb, watching over the City of Newark. The background is a traditional stained glass found in many Catholic churches woven within a traditional Native American pattern. She stands on local land, exuding spirituality and leadership. She is an icon.
DANIELA PULITI
Welcome Quilt
Location: Treat Place, Newark
Utilizing the framework of crochet afghan, Puliti’s mural incorporates a patchwork design pulling colors from the LGBTQ flag and a spectrum of skin tones. In addition- The Newark Museum has a long history of collecting and displaying the decorative arts with several notable exhibitions of patchwork quilts. In honor of that history, several squares of her design will be dedicated to acknowledging elements of various quilts from The Newark Museum’s collection.
BARAT FOUNDATION with SUE DALY
Sewing a Path to Freedom
Location: Treat Place, Newark
The Underground Railroad was the first civil rights movement in the country. The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave responsible for helping over 300 slaves escape to freedom in the North. Ms. Tubman came through Newark and was harbored in the underground passageways at the First Presbyterian Church on Broad Street
NANCY SALEME & PATRICIA CAZORLA
Wrapping Beaver Street
Location: Beaver St., Newark
Since 2011, Nancy Saleme and Patricia Cazorla, have been part of Downtown Newark’s art community- becoming active learners and observers of this vibrant city and its’ people. The inspiration for Wrapping Beaver Street comes from a merge of inspirations and is driven from one of the most powerful passages of US history, The Great Migration.
GERALUZ
Sacred Water
Location: Corner of Market and Beaver St., Newark
Sacred Water addresses community crisis and collaboration. Looking to water as an abstract/ visual inspiration, the mural prompts viewers to address how local issues bring communities together regardless of race, socio-economic status, gender and cultural backgrounds. It encourages a united front, a stronger Newark.
EIRINI LINARDAKI & DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL
Raise #3
Location: 12 Beaver St., Newark
Muralist Eirini Linardaki completed a multi-site mural that addresses how waves of immigration during its 350 plus years of history have shaped the City of Newark. You can walk her mural Waves / Passaic (immigration and history) on Treat Place or check out her collaboration with Discovery Charter School, Raise #3 on Beaver St.
EIRINI LINARDAKI
Waves / Passaic (immigration and history)
Location: Treat Pl., Newark
Using the counterpoint of the great Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in Newark’s origin story, Linardaki illustrates these “waves” with patterns and fabrics from the many cultures that have called Newark home, beginning with the Lenni Lenape peoples.
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