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Street art and anti-racism: The mural depicting George Floyd painted by local artists on the side wall of Cup Foods at 38^th St and Chicago in Minneapolis initially transformed a location that was a tragic marker of an extrajudicial antiblack murder into an important community space for memorialization, organizing, fellowship, and healing, but also became a site of conflict and negotiation. A simple tag reading "Mama," written on a wall near the location of intense conflict between protesters and the police, can be read as an equally powerful call for transformational change. Starting with works such as these, this database seeks to collect ephemeral imagery of all types, large and small, commissioned and uncomissioned, covering a tremendously wide range of approaches and perspectives.

Project goals: The Urban Art Mapping George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database seeks to document examples of street art from around the world that have emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality. The database will serve as repository for images and a future resource for scholars and artists by way of metadata that is freely available. In addition, the project will make possible an analysis of the themes and issues that appear in street art, explored in relation to local experiences, responses, and attitudes.

Use of images: Images and metadata available in this database are intended for non-commercial educational use only. The intention of this database is to document the visual landscape of the movement for scholarship, research, and teaching.

Database created by: Dr. Todd Lawrence, Dr. Paul Lorah, and Dr. Heather Shirey with the Urban Art Mapping Research Project. Our student research collaborators are Tiaryn Daniels, Summer Erickson, Shukrani Nangwala, Hannah Shogren-Smith, and Chioma Uwagwu. Our research team is based in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Additionally, please see our Covid-19 Street Art Database.

Questions? Comments? Additional information on works in the database? Contact: Dr. Heather Shirey at hmshirey@stthomas.edu

Header image: a detail from panels at Gordon Parks High School, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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