Solidarity
A boarded up shop front with various texts and images, including a fist, flowers, and an anchor. Text reads "Black Trans Lives Matter," " Solidarity," and "Hope."
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-06-07">2020-06-07</a>
HS
Photograph by John Marion
RI
UAM-GF_0083
225A Westminster Street
Justice for Tony/Black Trans Lives Matter
Set against a teal background, a sensitive portrait of Tony McDade surrounded by flowers. Text reads "Justice For Tony/Black Trans Lives Matter."
Maiya Lea Hartman; @MaiaLeaArt
Memorializes Tony McDade: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/05/tony-mcdade-tallahassee-florida-police-shooting-death/
Seward Co-Op Friendship Store
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-06-07">2020-06-07</a>
HS
Photograph by Laura Zebuhr; Art by @maiyaleaart
Minnesota
UAM-GF_0157
317 E 38th Street
Black Trans Lives Matter | Bringing Back Bowery
A white swatch on a piece of plywood previously marked with other graffiti and tags reads in large black block font: "BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER". Between these words is a painting of the upper half of a person's face, with purple skin and long flowing blue hair. Underneath the person's face is a series of miscellaneous prints and painted freeform flowers surrounding a periwinkle triangle, with an inner triangle outline. The triangle is also bordered with a black and orange line.
Maya Edelman
Posted by @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram. Caption: "Mural by @longunevenhair @mayadidas at Bar Primi at 325 Bowery"
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-06-29">2020-06-29</a>
F.S.
Artist: Maya Edelman
Image: @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram
UAM-GF_1610
325 Bowery, New York, NY, 10003
Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere | Bringing Back Bowery
A portrait of a Black person emerges from a slab of plywood painted with lime green and deep purple. The person's face, as a focal point to the work, is framed by hair that appears to have been created with collaged paper fragments, creating a halo around their head of abstracted black and white curls. Below their face, two painted blue panels feature the only text visible within the work. The panel immediately below their head is painted in a wash of light blue and reads in bold text: "Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere - MLK." The panel immediately beneath the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote is painted a mid-tone shade of blue and reads in all capitalized lettering: "Black Trans Lives Matter." Small collaged paper faces surround the blue panels and echo the ambiguity of gender that the focal point establishes.
Lissa Baur
Posted by @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram. Caption: "Mural by @lissa.baur for @threejewelsnyc."
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-06-25">2020-06-25</a>
F.S.
Artist: Lissa Baur
Image: @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram
5 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10003
"It Is Never My Intention To Harm Anyone" | Bringing Back Bowery
An expansion of a previously existing mural by Maya Edelman, The previously existing mural features a white swatch on a piece of plywood previously marked with other graffiti and tags that reads in large black block font: "BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER". Between these words is a painting of the upper half of a person's face, with purple skin and long flowing blue hair. Underneath the person's face is a series of miscellaneous prints and painted freeform flowers surrounding a periwinkle triangle, with an inner triangle outline. The triangle is also bordered with a black and orange line.
The additions to the previous mural are extensive. The formerly white space below the original mural is now filled with vibrant imagery: foliage and greenery as a budding tree grows from the leftmost corner, blossoms bloom along the base of the mural, and a red skull with blue teeth sits in the rightmost corner.
What was formerly unpainted plywood above the "Black Trans Lives Matter" text is now painted as a tribute to Eric Garner. A portrait of a smiling Garner is now on the leftmost corner. Next to his face, a white swatch of paint interrupts the red background to state, in fully-capitalized lettering: "Eric Garner Died Thursday July 17th 2014 (Choke Hold) by NYPD." A blue circle reads "RIP" next to his final words: "I Can't Breathe" and "It Is Never My Intention to Harm Anyone". With multiple officers pinning him down, Garner repeated the words "I can't breathe" 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk. o indictments resulted from Garner's murder, despite the chokehold that he was placed in at the time of his arrest being a prohibited hold.
Scooter LaForge, Maya Edelman, and Sono Kuwayama
Posted by @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram. Caption: "Latest collaboration mural with @scooterlaforge @longunevenhair and @sonokuwayama at Bar Primi on the corner of Bowery and 2nd street"
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-07-22">2020-07-22</a>
F.S.
Artist: Scooter LaForge, Maya Edelman, and Sono Kuwayama
Image: @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram
325 Bowery, New York, NY, 10003
Give Us Our Flowers Now
On a black background, four Black people are surrounded by yellow, pink, and orange flowers. Towards the bottom of the mural, a large trans flag is painted with the white in the middle placed by black. Over top of the flag in all caps, white text reads, "BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER".
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-11-09">2020-11-09</a>
ESW
Photographer: @nbjconthemove
UAM-GF_1851
USA
I'm Changing the Things I Cannot Accept
On a black background, two sets of white text surround a black and white picture of Angela Davis. The first block of text surrounding her says, "I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept". The second block of text says, "If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night". On another section of black background, white and lilac text says in all caps, "BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER".
<a href="https://www.thedustyrebel.com/tagged/black+lives+matter+street+art/page/2">https://www.thedustyrebel.com/tagged/black+lives+matter+street+art/page/2</a>
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-07-16">2020-07-16</a>
ESW
Photographer: @thedustyrebel
UAM-GF_1865
Soho, NYC, New York
Give Us Our Roses
On the bottom half of the sign, a Black person wearing a rainbow jacket and holding a megaphone says, "GIVE US OUR ROSES WHILE WE'RE STILL HERE." On the top half of the sign, roses are a backdrop to the outline of a city. In the background are Black individuals, in all white outfits. In the middle of the sign text reads "#BLACKTRANSLIVESMATTER."
@3thanxp, @youthbreakout
<a href="https://www.thedustyrebel.com/post/635328277445312512/black-trans-lives-matter-ad-takeover-by-kosmo-x">https://www.thedustyrebel.com/post/635328277445312512/black-trans-lives-matter-ad-takeover-by-kosmo-x</a>
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-11-20">2020-11-20</a>
ESW
Creators: @3thanxp, @youthbreakout
Photographer: @thedustyrebel
UAM-GF_1867
New York, New York, USA
Trans Black Lives Matter
"Trans Black Lives Matter" with a heart has been painted on a wooden road block.
Urban Art Mapping
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-10-10">2020-10-10</a>
HS
Photographer: Robin Tzannes
UAM-GF_1939
E 10th Street, New York, New York, USA
Black Trans Lives Shine
Painted on plywood boards covering a storefront. The boards have been painted black. Three of the boards have abstract, geometric representations that resemble dancing, headless figures made of sparkly, metallic material. The panel on the door reads "Black Trans Lives Shine. "
Koffee_Creative
Urban Art Mapping
<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=2020-06-20">2020-06-20</a>
HS
Creator: @Koffee_Creative
Photographer: Robin Tzannes
UAM-GF_1940
New York, New York, USA