Showing posts with label mural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mural. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Mural of Some History of Cleveland NY, North Shore of Oneida Lake


This mural is located on the west wall of the former Vella’s Convenience Store on the main street of Cleveland.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Sea Walls Churchill: Know I’m Here by Georgia Hill (Australia)

Epic artists’ responses to calls for help from Churchill after government/rail companies disagreement over who should repair a huge washout of the train line, vital to life and livelihood in Churchill itself.

Here is an article about the washout: 

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Mural: The Rev. Jermaine Loguen, Abolitionist in Syracuse, 1840

In 1840, [The Rev. Jermain] Loguen started his own church in Syracuse, AME Zion. He helped 1,500 slaves to Canada (the “Freedom Land”). Not to mention Sarah Loguen, his daughter, was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Syracuse University to become a doctor.

See this article from syr.com for historical background.

Saturday, December 23, 2017

NYC: Smith & 9th by Gwynne Duncan

... on the G line at Clinton/Washington Aves. in Brooklyn

During her Brooklyn sojourn, Ms. Duncan curated grassroots art shows and worked on her own paintings. She was commissioned in 1998 to paint a mural for the Clinton/Washington Avenues station of the G line, which was supposed to be temporary but remains on view . “Amazingly, it’s never been vandalized!” she said.  [from a New York Times article about Ms. Duncan in 2014]

Friday, December 22, 2017

NYC: The Dream by Sameeh Alderazi

... on the G line at Clinton/Washington Subway Station in Brooklyn

Thursday, December 21, 2017

NYC: Minor Landscape by Josh Dorman

... on the G line at Clinton/Washington Subway Station in Brooklyn

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Hotel Syracuse Mural: William "Jerry" Henry

Renovations of the historic Hotel Syracuse revealed a long historical mural, painted in 1949 on the wall above and behind the reception counter. The restored mural depicts important elements of Syracuse history. Shown here is the far right hand section of the mural.

At the lower right is William "Jerry" Henry, who escaped slavery years before the Civil War to Missouri, a border state; then he moved to New York, a free state where he lived in Syracuse and worked in a barrel shop. On October 1, 1851 he was taken prisoner by federal marshals.under the Fugitive Slave Act  Later the same day abolitionists attending a convention here rescued and hid him. Weeks later he safely reached Canada, as did several of the abolitionists who had broken the law to rescue him.

Details surrounding the events are found here. And here.