Resources

Urban Art Mapping Project in the Media: 

• "George Floyd's Death Sparks Street Art Movement," CBS News, May 21, 2021.
• Leah Feiger, "How Protest Art Preserved Last Summer's Protests," Vice, May 24, 2021.
• Helen Stoilas, "A Year After George Floyd's Death, Art Memorials Are At a Crossroads," The Art Newspaper, May 21, 2021.
• Maya Salam, "How Plywood from Last Year's Protests Became Art," New York Times, May 20, 2021.
• Hakim Bishara, "Mapping Anti-Racist Street Art in Minneapolis and Worldwide," Hyperallergic, April 18, 2021.
• Jeff Stone, "Street art recorded protest and pandemic in real time. A big research project is trying to save it." No More Normal, January 23, 2021.
• Christine Fernando, "Artists, Activists Rush to Save Black Lives Matter Murals," Associated Press, December 13, 2020.
• Heather Shirey, "Art and Social Justice: A Digital Archive of Street Art and Protest," Americans for the Arts blog, December 3, 2020.
• Todd Lawrence, Tiaryn Daniels, and Chioma Uwagwu, "How the Death of George Floyd Sparked a Street Art Movement," Smithsonian Magazine, September 3, 2020.
• Maury Glover, "'Walls Speak:' How a Twin Cities is Hoping to Preserve Art Inspired by George Floyd's Death," Fox 9, September 1, 2020.
• Sonya Harris, "This New Digital Archive Preserves Black Lives Matter Protest Art From Around the World," My Modern Met, August 31, 2020.
• Lydia Moran, "Mapping Urban Art," Minnesota Women's Press, August 25, 2020.
• Leah Feiger, "A Virtual Museum Preserves Black Lives Matter Protest Art," Hyperallergic, August 24, 2020.
• Hier & There: A podcast of the Germanic American Institute, July 24, 2020.
• Leah Feiger, "Pain, Power, Healing: One Woman's Quest to Keep Protest Art in the Twin Cities," The Lily, July 7, 2020.
• Rich Reeve, "Digital Archive to Preserve Plywood is Growing," KSTP Eyewitness News, July 1, 2020.
• Kyeland Jackson, “This Minnesota Project Is Building a Map of Every George Floyd Mural in the World,” PBS Newshour, June 26, 2020.
• Amy Carlson Gustafson, “St. Thomas Documents George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art From Across the Globe,” Newsroom, June 23, 2020.  
• Kyeland Jackson, How Can Street Art Teach Us About Racism? Rewire, June 16, 2020.

Imagery:

• Minneapolis Murals: Immersive 360 Views by Urban Art Mapping Research team with photographer Annie Vitale.

• George Floyd Street Art / Saint Paul Storymap by Paul Lorah with the Urban Art Mapping Research team.

• Audio tour of 2020 Downtown Minneapolis Street Art Festival(includes some imagery related to George Floyd)

The Visual and Cultural Landscape in the Twin Cities:

• Giulia Heyward, "How street artists honor George Floyd and magnify a movement," Atlas Obscura, June 19, 2020.

• Frank Edgerton Martin, "On the ground in Minneapolis: The cultural landscapes that matter now," The Architect's Newspaper, July 1, 2020.

• Sarah Horner, "St. Anthony City Council rejects teen's Philando Castile mural, but she vows to keep fighting," Pioneer Press, July 15, 2020. 

• Emily Cassell, "The sixteen artists who painted Minneapolis's Black Lives Matter street mural, in their own words," City Pages, July 20, 2020.

• Dan Trudeau and Elliot Wareham, "Covid 19 and the end of public space," from A Field Guide to Public Spaces, 2020. 

• Jenna Ross, "Making his mark: How George Floyd's death reframed the life of a longtime Minneapolis artist," Start Tribune, November 2, 2020.

George Floyd and Black Lives Matter Street Art Around the World:

• “Birmingham George Floyd art 'gives voice to minorities'," BBC online. June 2, 2020.

• "Black Lives Matter mural being painted in Harlem," ABC7NY News, June 3, 2020.

• “Black Lives Matter Norwich graffiti painted over by council.” BBC online. June 5, 2020.

• "Black Lives Matter murals decorate downtown Indianapolis," RTV6, June 7, 2020.

• “Color is not a crime: New York's Black Lives Matter street art.” The Guardian online. June 15, 2020.

• Murals and signs celebrating the Black Lives Matter movement pop up in cities across the country," ABC  News, June  16, 2020.

• "Black Lives Matter Mural" in Eugene, OR, KEZI9 News, June 19, 2020.

• "Artists collaborate on new Black Lives Matter street mural in Oak Park, IL," ABC  Eyewitness News, June 24, 2020.

• Austin Steele and Kyle Almond. “George Floyd murals are popping up all over the world," CNN, June 26, 2020.

• Flurry of Murals inspired by Black Lives Matter Protests (Milwaukee), TMJ4 News video review, June 30, 2020.

• "The 'Black Lives Matter' Street Art That Contains Multitudes," New York Times, July 16, 2020.

• "Tulsa protesters use race massacre tombstones to defend a Black Lives Matter mural," Washington Post, August 3, 2020.

• "Blue paint splattered across Black Lives Matter street painting: 'An act of a coward,'" Tulsa World, August 10, 2020.

• "Protest Art Leaves the Streets," The Verge, October 21, 2020.

Street Art, Resistance, and Social Justice:

• Carmen Cowick. “Preserving Street Art: Uncovering the Challenges and Obstacles.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 29–44.

• Josh MacPhee. “Street Art and Social Movements.” Justseeds. February 17, 2009. 

• Guillaume Marche. “Expressivism and Resistance: Graffiti as an Infrapolitical Form of Protest against the War on Terror.” Revue française d’études américaines, vol. 131, no. 1, 2012: 78-96.

• The Nature of Cities online. 2016. 

Monuments and Public Space:

• Aine Cain and Marguerite Ward. “10 Confederate Leaders Who Still Have Monuments and Places Named After Them All Over the US.” Business Insider, June 10, 2020.

• Dave Mistich. “West Virginia, Born Out of the Civil War, Grapples with Confederate Monuments.” National Public Radio, June 20, 2020.

• Ezra Marcus. “Will the Last Confederate Statue Standing Turn Out the Lights?” New York Times, June 23, 2020. 

• Nora McGreevy. “The Racist Statue of Theodore Roosevelt Will No Longer Loom Over the American Museum of Natural History.” Smithsonian Magazine, June 23, 2020. 

• Jasmine Aguilera. “Confederate Statues are being Removed Amid Protests Over George Floyd’s Death.  Here’s What to Know.” Time, June 24, 2020.

• Hakim Bishara. “1712 Confederate Monuments Remain Standing in United States.” Hyperallergic, June 24, 2020.  

• Valentina Di Liscia. “Richmond Judge Blocks Mayor from Removing More Confederate Monuments.” Hyperallergic, July 10, 2020.

• Rebecca Santana and Jonathan Drew. “Less Momentum for Confederate Statue Removal in Rural Areas.” Daily Press, July 22, 2020.

Thank you to Marilyn Burnett and Harrison Schmidt for contributions to this growing list of resources.