Lots and lots have been going on in the past months and I truly do intend to blog about all the blessings and frustrations of the past several months, but first I simply want to post a photo. In November 2008 - more than two years ago - I began discussions with Princeton University about a public art and social justice project that would center on community murals. The woman who first reached out to me was Noliwe Rooks, deputy director of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.
Two years and many months later we debuted our first mural as part of the Trenton Mural Arts Project, a collaboration between Artworks, the Trenton Downtown Association/Destination Trenton, the City of Trenton, and the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation with assistance from Princeton University's Center for African American Studies, the Pace Center, and the Princeton Atelier which brought in Jane Golden of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Photos of the actual mural will be posted later -- when I get some good ones that do it justice.
Meanwhile, the photo at the left was taken after our mural dedication ceremony this past Saturday. Left to right that's my staffer Candice Frederick, Tourism Marketing Manager for Destination Trenton; me; Noliwe; and my former staffer (insert sad face) Eva Loayza who just left us to be a press secretary for the NJ Assembly Democrats. More on all later.
