Stay Strong
A plywood mural has been painted depicting Bruce Lee & Kareem Abdul Jabbar as well as a dragon.
@dozfy
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Artist: @dozfy
Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2887
650 S King St, Seattle, WA 98104
Be Strong
"Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e," a quote from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole has been painted on plywood along with additional boards and murals.
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2886
650 S King St, Seattle, WA 98104
Liberation Vibration
"Liberation Vibration" has been painted on plywood over a door. Additional plywood panels have been painted of the world.
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2885
665 S King St, 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
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Artists: @soulvenir.co
@moses_sun
Photographer: Rachel Weiher
719 S King St, Seattle, WA 98104
2020 Vision #BLM
Plywood boards have been painted black and white with the text "2020 Vision #BLM."
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2883
668 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104
Maya Angelou Plywood (Fragmentary)
A single plywood board remains on a business window. The text is the fragmentary quote from Maya Angelou "“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2882
JACKSON BUILDING, Seattle, WA 98104
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
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2881
JACKSON BUILDING, Seattle, WA 98104
Black Lives Matter Plywood Mural
A multi-panel plywood mural in teal and blue and wheatpasted with portraits of those murdered by police. George Floyd, Sandra Bland, David McAtee, Charleena Lyles, Manuel Ellis, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery are included. The mural also includes a photograph of the last time the neighborhood had boarded windows. This occurred in June 1942 during the forced removal and incarceration of all west coast Japanese Americans by the US government.
Erin Shigaki and Scott Méxcal with community members
Note from Erin Shigaki on May 30, 2022: "Much of this mural is still up (all portraits - which we have repaired 3-4 times to date), as the Chinatown International District neighborhood is one of the most econmically fragile in Seattle and many shop owners continue to experience an uptick in break-ins and vandalism. This uptick began at the onset of the COVID19 pandemic when anti-Asian xenophobic rhetoric was spread by Trump and in a historically repeating pattern, eagerly digested by many. When our neighborhood was boarded up, we experienced a shocking reminder of how the very building and neighborhood had boarded up in 1942 after all Japanese Americans on the west coast (including my family) were mass incarcerated without due process of law."
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Artists: Erin Shigaki and Scott Méxcal
Photographer: Rachel Weiher; Erin Shigaki
@koboseattleshop, @itsumonoseattle
UAM-GF_2875
JACKSON BUILDING, Seattle, WA 98104
BLM on a Tree
"BLM" spray painted in white on a tree.
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2874
2000 43rd Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112
Black Lives Matter on a City Utility Box
Various Black Lives Matter stencils with fists have been painted on a utility box with additional stickers.
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographer: Rachel Weiher
UAM-GF_2873
2721 E Union St, Seattle, WA 98122