Many Heads
These paste-up segments repetitiously depict three different Black individuals whose heads are bisected with imagery on the inside their mind. The titles describe what is in the mind of each person, “Swan” on the top, the center is “Night”, and the bottom is “Insight.”
Terrence Adeyanju
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Creator: Terrence Adeyanju (@iampeeld)
Photographer: Andy Townsend
UAM-GF_2118
222 State Street, Madison, WI, USA
Black like the Night Sky series
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.
A series of panels across several pieces of plywood:
1. Beautifully lettered text in black against a yellow ground. Text reads "Everytime you wash your hands it's a chance for a new beginning." by Hewana Sullivan Janzen.
2. Colorful raised fists against a yellow background.
3. Multiple panels across a door with poetic text by Tish Jones.
4. Text by Tish Jones reading "Black like Aspen Roots the connection Runs Deeper than the US Thought."
5. Drawing of George Floyd
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Noval Noir
Project initiated on June 7, 2020
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photographs by Sally Pemberton
UAM-GF_1005
371 University Avenue W, Saint Paul, MN, USA
George Floyd/Tree
Located on Pike Island in Fort Snelling State Park, a tree is carved with George Floyd's name.
The image quality is poor because it was dark and the photographer was attacked by mosquitoes, but this image is included in the database because it contributes something unusual (not situated in a densely populated area).
Urban Art Mapping Research Project
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Photograph by Froukje Akkerman
UAM-GF_0553
101 Snelling Lake Road, Saint Paul, Minnesota USA