No justice no peace, fight the police. Prosfygika for Black Lives.
George Perry Floyd (October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020) was a 46-year-old Black American man who was murdered by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin after Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. Floyd’s murder sparked an international movement for Black Lives Matter, the largest civil rights movement of the century. On March 12, 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On June 25, 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for his crimes.
Solidarity banner created and displayed by Prosfygika, a building complex of old refugee settlements that operates as a squatted autonomous community, shows the face of George Floyd, framed by the slogans "No justice no peace, fight the police" and "Prosfygika for Black Lives."
Prosfygika (squatted refugee settlements)
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Photograph by Julia Tulke, artwork by Prosfygika.
UAM-GF_0677
Athens, Greece
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."
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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"
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Artist: Scooter LaForge, Maya Edelman, and Sono Kuwayama
Image: @Bringing_Back_Bowery on Instagram
325 Bowery, New York, NY, 10003
Black Woman Magic
A mural on the Springboard for the Arts bulding in St. Paul. This mural has a blue, green, and yellow background. This mural's central figure is a black woman. She is featureless except for big hair and full lips. There are no words. The background appears to be radiating from this figure. "EB" is written in the lower right corner.
Dr. Eboni Bell
This piece was 3D scanned by KBK on Oct 2, 2020.
KBK: I was told be a representative of Springboard for the Arts that Dr. Eboni Bell created this piece during a painting event held by Springboard for the Arts. I have tried to reach out to Dr. Bell but have not gotten a reply.
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Photographer: KBK
UAM-GF_1840
262 University Ave W, Saint Paul, MN, USA
If Hope Was a Woman
A mural on the exterior of the Springboard for the Arts building in St. Paul MN. A white background with purple letters reads: "But if you ask her to embrace you she would drop everything she was doing and hold you like you have never been held before all of this would be if hope was a woman" --Hawona Sullivan Janzen.
The bottom of the mural is decorated with multi colored George Floyd portaits (done by stencil).
Hawona Sullivan Janzen is a local celebrated black poet.
This piece was 3D scanned by KBK on Oct 2, 2020.
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Photographer: KBK
UAM-GF_1842
262 University Ave W, Saint Paul MN, USA
Stolen Dakota Land
A piece of wood is nailed to a residential fence and reads "this house sits on stolen Dakota land" in red paint.
This is the same house as "Abolish The Police Sign" piece (UAM-GF_1858)
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_1859
Around 38th Street, and 14th Ave, South Minneapolis, MN, USA
Protect Yourself
A sign on a signpost reads "Protect Each other," "Justice 4 Floyd," and "Masks Help Us All" on a teal background. In the center of the sign, a stylized masked woman is stenciled.
George Floyd Square
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_1989
George Floyd Square, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Black Lives Matter
Written in black sharpie on plywood: "BLACK trans woman disabled intersex LIVES MATTER"
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Photographer: Emily Magyar
UAM-GF_2269
224 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Never Again Is Now
Remembrance and Liberation
Multiple photos have been collaged and placed on the side of a building. The photos speak to the WWII Japanese American incarceration. It is presented intersectionally with Black Lives Matter saying "None of us are free until all of us are free."
Images R to L:
"Somewhere in France"
Collection of Paul and Craig Murakami
"Honor Role"
Densho, Mitsuoka Family Collection
"Minidoka Concentration Camp, Hunt, Idaho"
National Archives and Records Administration
"Forcibly Removed From Bainbridge Island"
MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photographer Collection
Produced By:
Paul and Craig Murakami
Erin Shigaki @purplegatedesign
https://www.wingluke.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/JA-Remembrance-Trail_Map.pdf
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2881
JACKSON BUILDING, Seattle, WA 98104
Chopsticks In A Bundle Are Unbreakable
A large mural has been painted on plywood in red and black. The text reads "Chopsticks In A Bundle Are Unbreakable" in multiple languages with raised fists holding chopsticks.
@soulvenir.co
@moses_sun
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Artists: @soulvenir.co
@moses_sun
Photographer: Rachel Weiher
719 S King St, Seattle, WA 98104