A New Day

  • Representing ten tenets of strong women building safe communities, the figures stand pensive and optimistic.
  • The group examined this significant feminist artwork and its role in modern political and artistic movements.
  • A participant adds shading to the mural’s water. The water symbolizes a force that both unifies and separates women.
  • Detail. This figure illustrates the importance of clean, safe streets to raising strong women and creating stronger communities.
  • Looking at the ten figures are a young woman and a girl. The Muslim child holds a dove in her hand, confident that it is indeed a new day.
  • The Voices Her’d participants pose with paint splattered across their clothes.

Project Description

As part of Groundswell’s Voices Her’d Visionaries program, a group of young women created “A New Day” through a series of discussions, writing, and art activities. Inspired by feminist history and leaders, the young women identified a mural theme of “Strong Women Build Safe Communities.” This theme is illustrated through ten figures, each of which represents an individual member of the mural team. In the mural, the figures stand proudly surrounded by waves and backed by a golden sky. Each wears a gown that depicts one of ten tenets of strong women building safe communities. From left to right across the first row and then the second, the tenets are: (1) high literacy and good schools; (2) involvement in and critical consumption of the media; (3) involvement in politics; (4) financial independence; (5) high employment and career alternatives; (6) parental supervision and involvement; (7) healthy bodies and foods; (8) honoring the ancestors; (9) afterschool programs; and (10) clean and liveable streets.

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Project Info

Location: Washington Avenue and Lincoln Place Brooklyn, NY 11238

Fun Facts

Legend Symbol
Textile. The border of the mural pays homage to textile and decorative arts, inspired by Judy Chicago's belief that handicraft is often ignored by the fine art world as “women's work.”
Fun Fact
The eighth figure contains a portrait of Judy Chicago. The Voices Her’d team visited her installation “The Dinner Party” at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.