MURALS, MUSIC AND Since 2010 O+ (pronounced O Positive) has been working The production of this map was made possible by: to bring public art to Kingston, NY. We believe that art is MEDITATION medicine, and that experiencing and engaging with art can be tremendously healing. Public art activates and embellishes Experience 10 of the O+ spaces. It makes art accessible to everyone because many murals in an immersive new public artworks, especially murals, live outdoors. Public art way. Scan the QR code in inspires dialogue and fosters empathy. front of the mural to hear a musical composition and/or meditation from musicians and Every October artists from both near and far paint murals teachers in our community. (41 as of October 2019) throughout the city in response to You can also find the additional content on special a theme set by the O+ Kingston festival art committee. Many web pages indicated by a speaker icon on the mural of the works reflect the rich history, culture and diversity of descriptions on this map. Kingston and its residents. Others bring to light universal themes through the stories of people beyond our city’s Thanks to Formè (Jared Ashdown), Shawn Harrison, borders. All act as a catalyst to deeper understanding of the Jalani Lion, David McNamara, Jeff Mercel, Micah, world through representation, narrative and inclusivity. Eduardo Morales, Kortnee Simmons, Theresa Widmann and Yolanda Yolanda for helping O+ Participating artists receive health and wellness care, audiences engage more deeply with the Kingston including primary care, integrative medicine and massage murals. therapy in our Artists’ Clinic, as well as in-office dentistry and optometry. This exchange of “the art of medicine for the medicine of art” and the facilitation of public art are ways IN MEMORIAM: HYURO O+ empowers community members to take control of their collective wellbeing. Argentinian artist Tamara Djurovic, who painted murals In 2020 we commissioned O+ alumni to make two additional all over the world under the name Hyuro, died Nov. murals in the absence of the annual festival, which was 19, 2020, at her home in canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Valencia, Spain. This map is intended to help deepen the public’s relationship Hyuro painted “The Change” to, and understanding of, the inspiration and message each mural (pictured on the cover) artist endeavored to convey. for the 2019 O+ Kingston festival at 16 Lucas Ave. (on If you are interested in a guided tour for your K-12 the side of Spa 21 Kingston) between Washington school group or nonprofit organization, please contact Avenue and Green Street. It was one of the last [email protected] murals — or “interventions” as she referred to them — that she is known to have made.

“Vital, visionary, brilliant, bold” are the words that Denise Orzo, who was instrumental in bringing MURAL Hyuro to Kingston, used to describe the late artist. Photography contributed by Micah Blumenthal, Rachel “You addressed the human condition with honesty, Brennecke, Joe Concra, Jesika Farkas, Lauren Gill, Kevin intelligence and humor in your earthy palette and Godbey, Andy Milford, Kathleen Murray, Emily Roberts- harmonious composition, and your paintings remain Negron, Rez Ones, Denise Orzo, Rosemary Quinn, Justin MAP a gift to the world.” Schmidt, Daniel Weintraub and KayCee Wimbish. On the cover: “The Change” by Hyuro KINGSTON, NY SIGNATURE UNKNOWN ERNEST SHAW JR. ANNABELLE POPA THORNEATER COMICS DINA KRAVTSOV AND MATTHEW SCHULZE JESSIE AND KATEY XO 1 KNOW THYSELF 8 SECRETS OF THE 15 ATLANTIC STURGEON 23 SHADOW GUIDE/SHADOW SELF BOPS & TOTTOMS 37 DEISING’S BAKERY, 111 NORTH FRONT ST. BACK OF 35 NORTH FRONT ST., SCHWENK WETLANDS KEEGAN ALES, 20 SAINT JAMES ST. RADIO KINGSTON ANNEX, 693 BROADWAY 30 BARCONE’S MUSIC, 528 BROADWAY 2019: X DRIVE PARKING LOT LYNCH AUTO PARTS, 2015: THE OTHER 2018: SHADOW 2015: THE OTHER Artists Scott Chasse and Kenley Darling aka Signature 2015: THE OTHER 37-39 SAINT JAMES ST. The work of illustrator Will Lytle aka Thorneater Exploring the intangible shadow-self, this mural asks viewers to Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn are a Unknown reference traditional folk art patterns and offer Baltimore-based artist Ernest Shaw Jr. uses his deep 2019: X Comics is often inspired by both the people trust intuition and spirit to guide them through the portal of deeper Baltimore-based artist team that strives to bring a new context in scale and presentation. Their mural is a modification of a fairly common circular understanding of color and the figure to define the Illustrator and muralist Annabelle and plants and animals that call the Catskills understanding and infinite possibilities. The artists depicted the playfulness to public spaces and enhance pattern to create a series of alternative Xs and Os within the overall piece. duality of the African-American experience and to Popa painted amphibious and aquatic animals to draw attention to the threat of over-development home. For his wall at Keegan Ales, Lytle decided to portray the Atlantic Sturgeon, a native Hudson realms of inner space and interdimensional travels by painting a people’s lives through public art. They believe instagram.com/signature.unknown continue a rich history of African and African-American on natural habitats in New York. River fish that can grow to 15 feet and weigh more than 800 pounds, but is greatly threatened blindfolded figure riding with a flower-headed being on a tandem that the aesthetics of one’s environments can influence their emotion and state of mind. With a figurative art. His use of color to create rhythms in his instagram.com/annabellepopaart by overfishing and pollution. The artist and Keegan Ales owner Tommy Keegan agree the mural bicycle toward a flower-adorned portal. Although this is her first passion for people and design, Jessie & Katey bring life to unsung spaces through abstract painting work is informed by West African drumming. “I attempt opositivefestival.org/secrets and location are the perfect match: “a local water animal on a local watering hole!” Lytle says. O+ mural, Kravtsov (a registered nurse) has also volunteered in the and sculpture. Their work explores themes of movement and symmetry, inspired by bold color GAIA to create work that combats negative, degrading, instagram.com/thorneatercomics O+ Artists’ Clinic. combinations, patterns in nature, and woven textiles. Each piece and palette is specifically designed 2 ARTEMIS EMERGING FROM THE QUARRY denigrating and stereotypical images that falsely depict African people throughout the diaspora,” dinainspace.com | instagram.com/faze_change for its location. FORMER BSP, 72-98 CROWN ST. he says. “My mission and purpose is to illustrate the beauty of being an African in America while jessieandkatey.com 2013: SCALE maintaining truthfulness and authenticity in the process. I wish to raise the level of consciousness of LINDSEY WOLKOWICZ WITH DILLON PAUL Internationally recognized mural artist Gaia, who is based in VINCE BALLENTINE peoples of color, while providing others with a more full scope of the Black experience.” 16 LIFTED WITH TAFARI THE ARTIST JUSTIN SUAREZ Baltimore, depicted the ancient Greek goddess Artemis (inspired eshawart.com ANNE HEBARD SCHOOL OF BALLET, 795 BROADWAY 24 FLIGHT SEQUENCE by a photo he took at the Vatican) ascending from a limestone UNCLE WILLY 31 VINCE BALLENTINE opositivefestival.org/thyself 2018: SHADOW TIMELY SIGNS, 94 FURNACE ST. THE ANCHOR, 744 - 746 BROADWAY MOVING MOUNTAINS quarry with a skyline of on the horizon and a This mural features an intersectional tableau of women and 38 2020 2017: HOME YMCA OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY, Corinthian crown at the top. The enormous mural references girls climbing, lifting, and working together, visually connected To mark what would have been the 11th annual O+ Rochester, New York-based muralist Justin Suarez draws 507 BROADWAY Kingston’s proximity to the natural resources that helped build by the gestures of their bodies, along with planes of bold colors Kingston festival, O+ commissioned alumnus Vince inspiration from his work as a handler of birds of prey at a local 2017: HOME New York; the process of resource exploitation as a defiling of approximating architectural elements. Women and girls have Ballentine to paint a mural portrait of a Kingston figure animal sanctuary. For his O+ mural, Suarez depicted the flight For Brooklyn-based multi-disciplined visual artist Mother Earth; and marble and limestone used for architectural embellishments in early Neoclassical been emerging from the shadows of the patriarchy as powerful of his choosing. Ballentine decided to paint local bon vivant Uncle Willy, a fixture in both Kingston sequence of the barn owl, illustrating the brief pauses of its body motions as it moves between tree Vince Ballentine, Home is an “outward manifestation revival / Georgian style architecture. The statue represents Mother Earth and is a Hellenistic and voices and changemakers in our communities. Here, the collective BUDDY VALENTINE and nearby Rosendale, particularly their dive bars, festivals and music venues. Uncle Willy is branches during its nocturnal hunt. Want to spot barn owls in Ulster County? Head to the Shawangunk of how we exist and where we come from.” His Roman reference to the celebration of democracy in early United States history. feminine are “stretching their influence and talents out across their communities and building the WITH CHRIS BICK known for a costume-like wardrobe that often includes colorful robes, sparkly glasses and a Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in Wallkill. mural, the second O+ mural at the YMCA, deals gaiastreetart.com 9 future together,” the artist says. “Lifted” is inspired by a saying synonymous with the Riot Grrrl SWAK crown. Don’t pass up an opportunity to talk to Uncle Willy. He’s got stories to tell. aerosolkingdom.com with generational wisdom and love, displacement, the environment, and honoring the indigenous, movement: “girls to the front.” 313 FAIR ST., UPPER STOCKADE ROOF WALL vballentine.com | instagram.com/tafari_the_artist particularly the Choctaw Nation (part of the artist’s heritage). lindseyawolkowicz.com MATTHEW PLEVA 2014: CORRESPONDENCE vballentine.com Writer, artist and aerobics teacher Buddy Valentine opositivefestival.org/lifted BOOGIEREZ AND MR EWOK ONE THE HOBGOBLIN OF OLD DUTCH BROADWAY WILD RIDE 72-98 CROWN ST. FACING PEACE PARK 3 created a pair of O+ murals that kiss across town. 32 Buddy is the author of “Rainbows,” the “coolest, ROBERT MARKEY EDDY’S RESTAURANT, 742 BROADWAY 2014: CORRESPONDENCE 2018: SHADOW JULIA SANTOS SOLOMON Lifelong Kingston resident Matthew Pleva usually funnest book series about fighting depression” with JOHN BREINER PEACE MANDALA FROM THE GROUND UP 25 This mural is a reminder of how a spirit of playfulness M'YMCA makes art the size of a postage stamp using a pen each individually published chapter organized around 17 THE CLINTON AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 39 KEEGAN ALES MERCANTILE, 36 SAINT JAMES ST. and imagination can transform an ordinary day into a YMCA OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER and ink crosshatching technique for his drawings and a color. Feel the love! 122 CLINTON AVE. 2016: MOTHERS OF INVENTION magnificent journey that illuminates our world. In the COUNTY, 507 BROADWAY dioramas. For the huge wall facing Peace Park, Pleva instagram.com/heybuddyvalentine 2019: X Poughkeepsie-based artist John Breiner explored the balance midst of a fantastical adventure, two children emerge 2014: CORRESPONDENCE built a grid on wheels to properly cross-hatch the Mosaic artist Robert Markey collaborated with neighbors to create of humans and nature through the motif of bricks. The brick from a shadow/alternate universe riding a mullet-haired helmeted turkey on jet skis, a nod to the Woodstock-based artist Julia Santos wall “canvas.” The mural depicts the legend of a mischievous spirit who became trapped and an 8’ x 8’ mural out of broken tiles that celebrates peace, love and symbolizes stability and the artist depicted what that meant to turkey roasted daily inside Eddy’s Restaurant. Caricature, illustration and stylized writing pay homage Solomon created a mural for the YMCA imprisoned in the Old Dutch Church steeple. Its little tricks include adding a numeral to the clock’s community. him after a period of moving from place to place. His mural to culture, culture and pop culture (note the Ultraman doll from Japanese science parking lot wall intended to be welcoming, face so that it reads thirteen instead of twelve. robertmarkey.com pays tribute to the brick manufacturing history of Kingston’s fiction). A total collaborative effort, the mural showcases each of the artists’ signature motifs. healing and inclusive of the rich diversity, matthewpleva.com Hutton Brickyard that was part of the Hudson River brick industry. Bricks were manufactured locally but instagram.com/riiisaboogie | instagram.com/rezones history and heritage of the residents of Kingston’s Midtown neighborhood. The Dominican instagram.com/mr_ewok_one Republic-born artist collaborated with volunteers from the YMCA art club to develop and execute GEDDES JONES PAULSEN used far and wide to build cities. Breiner’s mural presents the notion that the region is a hive of cultural activity, and ever changing like a beehive. the composition. KIMBERLY KAE AND RAUDIEL SAÑUDO JETSONORAMA WITH 10 johnbreiner.com juliasantossolomon.com 4 BILANCIA UNTITLED 26 JESS X. SNOW LADY PINK BIRCH BODY SPA (ALLEY), 73 CROWN ST. 309 FAIR ST. AIN'T I A WOMAN? NATIVE AMERICANS 2013: SCALE 2011: EXCHANGE MILNE FABRICATION FACTORY, 33 DISCOVER COLUMBUS Esopus-based artist Kimberly Kae envisioned Geddes Jones Paulsen, a Hudson Valley- and JACK DISHEL AND VOR 138 72 FRANKLIN ST. EXPRESS LATINOS, 686 BROADWAY BUDDY VALENTINE two towering chair-o-plane rides that briefly Nantucket-based illustrator and tattoo artist, 18 UNTITLED 2015: THE OTHER 2016: MOTHERS OF INVENTION 40 WITH CHRIS BICK

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JR., DANTE CRUMP, JONTE ARTBAR GALLERY, 674 BROADWAY 2019: X U te In his genre-defying piece “Sun/Moon,” he blends local Hudson P in the U.S. and Europe and his work celebrates A the everyday 2015 to create “Pronkstilleven,” which references the Dutch word CLARK & JEFFREY D'AGUILAR 2016: MOTHERS OF INVENTIONt Michael Fusco and Christina Fusco hope their v River Valley landscape elements of white pine trees, dramatic sunset W Pier W Uni person. His O+ mural pays tribute to the meaninge of true for ornate or ostentatious still-life. Building on a series of works that MILNE FABRICATION FACTORY, Artist and poet Jess X. SnowS created a three-story mural depicting our common robin juxtaposed with friendship and depicts his friend, Matt, as a massive playing began with Savage Habbit Murals Project in Jersey City, NJ, the still- and bald eagles with psychedelic flair. The artist explores the idea of 72 FRANKLIN ST. mural featuring a portrait of Sudanese-migrant its fossilized self will make viewers think deeply card. This “king of friends” is seen on one side in the best of life becomes a foreground for historical figures. For “Pronkstilleven” home as planet Earth balanced between our life-giving sun and tide- 2015 poet Safia Elhillo. It is painted in solidarity with and about climate change and its potential for mass times and on the other during more challenging life experiences Gaia painted the portraits of American neoclassicist painter John regulating moon, stylized into mandala. His graffiti moniker “ENZ” This mural was painted in honor of four young celebration of millions of migrant mothers and sisters extinctions. — but friends through it all. Vanderlyn and abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner emblazoned in the foreground activates and proclaims “This is my men who died as the result of a car accident in and animals of the sea and sky, crossing borders, instagram.com/aicixhxan | instagram.com/xtinatse home.” A campfire invites one closer and echoes the fiery sunset. nilswestergard.com Truth. Gaia juxtaposed the “otherness” of both figures; one, a August 2015. Next to them is a portrait of a fifth young man (the artist’s brother) who died in a separate oceans and deserts in search of home. “Does the opositivefestival.org/robinx well-travelled and educated white painter who was born and died instagram.com/enztheheartist car accident only months before. All were mentors to many in the neighborhood and greater Kingston ocean and Earth not embrace us the way it does the (penniless) in Kingston, and the other, an African-American woman, community. The mural serves as a living memorial and gathering place to remember them. animals and plants?” Snow asks. “If so, every border drawn is an unnatural act of violence against the (hawa) ءاوه born into slavery, who freed herself and travelled the country fighting for the rights of others. instagram.com/iamyounglion2 Earth and ourselves.” The mural is inspired by Elhillo’s poem, which notes the Arabic words hawa) are homophones: one means wind; the other means love. NANIBAH "NANI" CHACON) ىوه gaiastreetart.com EUGENE STETZ JR. and 20 FISHBONE jessxsnow.com | jia-sung.com 42 WE'VE ALWAYS FOUND OUR WAY HOME PEOPLE’S PLACE, 17 SAINT JAMES ST. THE BRUSH FACTORY, 107 GREENKILL AVE. JANE BLOODGOOD-ABRAMS 2016: MOTHERS OF INVENTION LAYQA NUNA YAWAR, 2017: HOME JIA SUNG Dine (Navajo) and Chicana artist Nanibah Chacon’s cultural WITH SARULA BAO 12 VIGNETTES OF HOME Eugene Stetz Jr. in his mural explored how 28 MATA RUDA, NANOOK 6 WIN MORRISON REALTY, 63 JOHN ST. reading books can spark a child’s imagination. AÑOS DE SOLEDAD heritage and experience often inform her work as a muralist and BETWEEN REALMS WE LA MORENA activist. The Albuquerque, New Mexico-based painter has made GROW ROOTS 2017: HOME The High Falls-based artist collaborated with 721 BROADWAY 2015: THE OTHER WITH CESAR CASTANEDA an homage to the indigenous people that have passed through or 63 NORTH FRONT ST. Lifelong Hudson Valley resident and Kingston- the People’s Place staff to include visuals that showcase the goods and services offered at the 35 The mural portrays Nina Gualinga, an SHADOW OF OUR live in the Catskills. The woman in the mural uses the proportion of 2017: HOME based painter Jane Bloodgood-Abrams is inspired thrift store and food pantry, including fresh fruit, clothing, toys, games and birthday party supplies. environmental and indigenous rights activist ANCESTORS her hand to measure the stars and navigate. The unique patterns Brooklyn-based artist Jia Sung, who assisted by the iconic landscape of the region and the stetzism.com and “hija del primer levantamiento (daughter of LITE BRITE NEON, 26 DOWNS ST. correspond to different tribes and cultures. Plants represent local Jess X. Snow on the “O Wind Take Me to My artistic heritage of the Hudson River School. The the first uprising).” It is inspired by Marc Silver’s 2018: SHADOW herbs and fauna, while the infant signifies the continuation of Country” mural in 2016, returned to Kingston three luminous porthole/portals that make up her O+ mural allow the viewer to reflect on the imagery SAMANTHA FRENCH photograph of Gualinga taken during his Lucinda Yrene Hinojos, aka La Morena is cultural practices, “which in essence bind us to home.” to paint Snow as muse. The figure of the queer of the landscape beyond the city. “It helps show the interconnection of artists and others, past and AND AARON HAUCK documentation of the fight of the Kichwa tribe in a fourth generation Chicana (Mexican- instagram.com/nanibah Asian-Canadian artist, poet and filmmaker is present, who choose to make this region their home based on in no small part, the natural beauty.” 21 LATE SUMMER KILL SWIM Ecuadorian Amazon to save their ancestral land from oil interests. The mural also depicts migration, American) Apache/Pima artist, whose intergenerational tableau depicts her grandmother, Irene situated between the two realms of sun and moon janebloodgoodabrams.com KEEGAN ALES, 20 SAINT JAMES ST. local (Kingston, NY) landscapes, and an Incan Inti gold piece over coal and marble, which were Arollo; her daughter, Gisele DeLeon; and niece, Mizeyli Lopez sharing in traditional healing practices to illustrate the complex relationship of a migrant to their homeland and wherever they now find FACING PROSPECT STREET natural resources mined from the area to build cities and capitals. The viewer sees references to from their Curanderismo lineage. In the foreground are a pair of colibrí (hummingbirds) — the spirit themselves struggling to assimilate. Sung depicted Snow opening their heart space to grow roots 2018: SHADOW traditional medicine, modern technology, wellness and health divided by years of solitude. animal of the artist, her spirit messenger and light worker. Family is a universal experience of all MATTHEW PLEVA in a “gesture of devotion and defiance, challenge and vulnerability.” THORNEATER COMICS QUEEN GATE This mural depicts a female figure, surfacing in layqa.info | cargocollective.com/mataruda | cargocollective.com/nanook peoples, and consciously or unconsciously we sit in our ancestors’ shadows, casting our shadows THE RONDOUT EFFECT 43 jia-sung.com | sarula-bao.com 13 RIVERPORT WOODEN BOAT SCHOOL ROUNDS & ROUNDS, ALLEYWAY OFF 273 WALL ST. the green/aqua natural waters reminiscent of Hudson Valley swimming holes. The word “kill” in the title opositivefestival.org/soledad onto future generations. 2018: SHADOW references these local bodies of water, often creeks and rivers that are plentiful in the area. The mural is an instagram.com/lamorena_art HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM, Lifelong Ulster County resident and O+ alumnus Will Lytle extension of French’s studio practice; her paintings reflect on the nostalgia of summers spent in the water, 70-86 EAST STRAND STREET aka Thorneater Comics created two murals on opposing calling to mind the quiet tranquility of nature, of days spent sinking and floating, still and peaceful. The mural 2017: HOME This mural shines a light (literally!) on the parallel walls meant to function as a gate or gauntlet for style plays with both abstraction and hyper-realism, depending on the viewer’s perspective. JALANI LION, MARTINA NEHRLING mission of the Hudson River Maritime Museum a pedestrian passage. It is the artist’s intention that those samanthafrench.com | ahauck.com DINA KRAVTSOV AND JESS X. SNOW AND EMILY'S BEES, THE AUTUMN passing through will feel guarded and protected by the 29 and focuses on the role the Rondout played and continues to play in Kingston’s history and culture. 7 MATTHEW SCHULZE LAYQA NUNA YAWAR 36 The Kingston-based artist in his second mural for O+ has depicted the Rondout Lighthouse (maritime LIGHT, THE LOCAL PUBLIC RADIO , who face each other, creating a space between that evokes a peaceful air of sanctuary. BLACK LIVES MATTER 43 NORTH FRONT ST. LUNETTE SURVIVOR LOVE LETTER history of the Hudson River), sloop Clearwater (environmental conservation), the Draken Harald Thorneater Comics painted the Queens in inverse correspondence with a black and white palette. LMNOPI FUTURE HOME OF RADIO FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK’S DARMSTADT 2016: MOTHERS OF INVENTION Hårfagre (traditional boatbuilding techniques) and fishermen (recreational uses of the river). Adorned in reverential hand-painted patterning, they beckon a meditative journey to explore the PRETTY NOSE & KINGSTON’S COMMUNITY/ SHELTER, 40 THOMAS ST. Chicago artist Martina Nehrling used her 22 matthewpleva.com balance of light and shadow, personal symbology and personal mythology. DAKOTA UNITY RIDERS PERFORMANCE SPACE, 2018: SHADOW own visual vocabulary of multiple distinct KEEGAN ALES, 20 SAINT JAMES ST. instagram.com/thorneatercomics 695 BROADWAY This mural tells the origin story of the Survivor brushstrokes in highly saturated colors to 2013: SCALE 2020 Love Letter project as painted by O+ alumni Jess create a mural on panel that developed The mission of artist and environmental activist O+ alumni artists collaborated on a mural that memorializes and honors Black lives, calls for an X. Snow and Layqa Nuna Yawar. Founder Tani JANA LIPTAK spontaneously and organically in response Lopi LaRoe aka Lmnopi is to give a voice to HYURO end to systemic racism, racial violence and police brutality, and offers healing to those who have Ikeda wrote a love letter to her younger self on THEIR SURVIVAL IS OUR SURVIVAL to the lunette, the rhythm of nearby uptown the voiceless through art. Pretty Nose was an 44 14 THE CHANGE endured these inequities for generations. Jalani Lion’s portraits of the late Breonna Taylor, George the anniversary of her assault: “Dear Survivor: TWAALFSKILL FIREHOUSE, 3 DUNN ST. Kingston activities, and unique sensory atmosphere. Nehrling painted offsite in a nearby location SPA21 KINGSTON, 16 LUCAS AVE. Arapaho woman war chief who is believed to Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery are set among Dina Kravtsov’s paintings of resilient and medicinal to love yourself is to become free.” The mural 2019: X observing the passage of autumn light throughout the day. The composition and structure of the 2019: X have participated in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. “History tends to place the emphasis Hudson Valley plants. Matthew Schulze painted the lettering throughout. This mural is temporary features a double portrait of Ikeda comforting her younger self along with her words, plus the words Jana Liptak utilized paint to evoke cross-stitch to mark making was influenced by the honeycombs of beehives hanging nearby. Palette decisions Hyuro rarely showed faces in the figures she paints, on the experiences and deeds of the Native American men while the women remain a mystery,” and will be removed during the summer of 2021 due to the construction. It will be replaced with a of Kingston-area survivors of sexual violence who participated in a facilitated workshop. Floating lily stunning effect in her mural that depicts endangered began with International Optimism Yellow, a paint color that is its own art project by local allowing viewers to make personal interpretations and Lmnopi writes. “This mural is a dedication to the lives of those women whose stories remain permanent mural in 2022. pads, flowering St. John’s Wort and monarch butterflies remind us that, like nature, we can transform species that live (or lived) in New York. conceptual artist Uncle Riley. Adding to the mix was the constant influence of the local classical connections. The artist painted one single, striking image: unknown, only for our imaginations to invent.” The artist invites the viewer to think about the instagram.com/iamyounglion2 | dinainspace.com | and heal from trauma by loving and tending to ourselves. janaliptak.com station as well as the “convivial atmosphere” in the Kingston arts community. that of a female figure arranging flowers in a vase on a following questions: “Did they (women ancestors) fight alongside the men for their freedom? instagram.com/faze_change Survivorloveletter.com martinanehrling.com table. What roles did they play in decision making as to their future?” opositivefestival.org/survival instagram.com/h_y_u_r_o lmnopi.com opositivefestival.org/blm opositivefestival.org/survivor