• Friday, 08/17/2012

  If These Walls Could Talk

  Founded in Brooklyn over 15 years ago, Groundswell is about more than just murals. It’s art as a tool for social change.

  Brooklyn Community Foundation
• Friday, 08/17/2012

  Painting a picture of a better community

  A new mural will soon grace the side of the C-Town on 25th Street in Sunset Park.

  Denise Romano, Home Reporter News
• Thursday, 08/16/2012

  Mural teaches traffic safety in Corona

  The High School for Arts and Business’ once-drab, gray outside wall now has something to show off.

  Josey Bartlett, Queens Chronicle
• Wednesday, 08/15/2012

  Mural Takes Shape at Downtown Brooklyn Jail

  A team of young artists — including some who themselves have spent some time in jail — are transforming the blank State Street wall of the Brooklyn Detention Complex with a 90-foot mural depicting “restorative justice” and personal transformation.

  Mary Frost
• Tuesday, 08/14/2012

  Inspiring Hunts Point, One Mural At a Time

  A minimum-wage painting job turned out to be a life-changing experience for 15 Bronx teenagers this summer.

  Amelia Pang, The Epoch Times
• Friday, 08/10/2012

  Jóvenes Pintan Las Calles de NY

  Jóvenes pintan las calles de NY sobre temas como la ecología y el transporte.

  NY1 Noticias
• Thursday, 08/09/2012

  A Mural in Progress on Johnson Street

  A reader alerted us to the mural going up on the wall of the Mobile Gas Station in Downtown Brooklyn at 185 Flatbush Avenue Extension.

  Emily Nonko, Brownstoner
• Thursday, 08/09/2012

  Teens Paint Mural Outside East New York Subway Station

  A summertime project aims to bring beauty to the city while teaching young people the skills they'll need to find jobs by creating works of art in some unusual places, like a subway station in East New York, Brooklyn.

  Tina Redwine, NY 1
• Friday, 08/03/2012

  Youth Paint the History of the Navy Yard on its Walls

  Under the hot sun of a recent afternoon in Brooklyn, youth working with Groundswell’s Community Mural Project painted the Navy Yard’s outer wall.

  Janet Upadhye, DNAinfo
• Thursday, 07/26/2012

  Groundswell Mural Design

  This past Tuesday afternoon, I joined other Justice Center staff and community members in a classroom at PS/IS 323.

  Benjamin Smith, Brownsville Community Justice Center

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