GROUNDSWELL IN THE NEWS

  • Tuesday, 08/10/2010

    Brooklyn Students Paint Mural to Prevent Gun Violence

    The 14-by-100-foot mural facing Brower Park in Crown Heights is big, bold, and sends a powerful message to passersby: local teens won't tolerate gun violence.

    In Our Schools Today, The New York City Department of Education
  • Friday, 08/06/2010

    New York City’s Waterfronts, Covered

    A woman pushes a stroller by an aquatic mural at Coney Island.

    Aidan Gardiner, The New York Times
  • Tuesday, 08/03/2010

    Brooklyn Artists Join Public Mural Project

    Dozens of teens and young adults in Brooklyn are teaming up with professional artists this summer to create six large murals.

    NY1 News
  • Thursday, 07/01/2010

    Mosaic Unveiled At Chinatown Senior Center

    A new work of art is bringing the young and old together in Chinatown.

    NY1 News
  • Wednesday, 06/16/2010

    The Collaborators: Artists Working Across Disciplines

    This spring, in lieu of yet another show of disparate student work, my MFA class decided to create an entirely collaborative exhibition.

    Lily Rossebo, Art21 Blog
  • Thursday, 05/27/2010

    Art Cheers Up Lutheran Hospital Wing

    New art work graces a wing at Brooklyn’s Lutheran Hospital.

    NY1 News
  • Saturday, 05/01/2010

    Brooklyn NY – Change Happens

    Explore the culture of memorial murals and the mourning, memories, death, life, friends, family and art that goes along with them on Segment C.

    State of the Re:Union, WNYC
  • Friday, 03/19/2010

    Re: Big Art, Big Money

    While I enjoyed Calvin Tomkins’s profile of the artist Julie Mehretu, I was surprised and disturbed by some of her comments in reference to her work “Mural,” commissioned by Goldman Sachs (“Big Art, Big Money,” March 29th).

    Joe Matunis, The New Yorker
  • Wednesday, 01/27/2010

    Career Profile: Amy Sanaman, Executive Director, Groundswell Community Mural Project

    Amy Sananman, the Founder and Executive Director of Groundswell Community Mural Project, talks about what it means to be an Executive Director, the day to day of her work, her personal path and advice for people looking at starting their own organization.

    Idealist.org
  • Saturday, 12/19/2009

    Mural Celebrates Hunts Point and its Women

    On Hunts Point Avenue, a smiling woman in green pulls a fresh vegetable from a thriving garden. Another woman is perched atop an apartment building, enjoying the warmth of the brilliant sun as birds fly overhead. A father reads to his child at the foot of a large tree.

    Sasha Wortzel, The Hunts Point Express

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