When we opened our email announcing the reopening of Richmond's Poe Museum, we learned about a new initiative growing in the city. Mending Walls is a public art project seeking to spark conversation and healing in communities and let the world know that Black Lives Matter. We hope you'll look them up, and if you have a business, consider allowing them to share their art on your walls. The information below is pulled directly from their website and the Poe Museum's post.
The Mission
Mending Walls is a public art project that brings together public artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create murals that address where we are now in society and how we can move forward through understanding and collaboration. Mending Walls pairs up artists of different backgrounds to create unique connections and give them an opportunity to tell their story collaboratively in an effort to express healing through connection. In this moment we all are searching for more understanding and this project will serve as a tool that would fuel connection through story telling. Our hope is to bring about healing through public art while adding something meaningful to the conversation of Black Lives Matter.
Donate Your Wall
Mending Walls is always looking for new locations for the public art that we support. You are able to Donate your wall to be considered as a potential site location for the Mending Walls project. In order to be considered as a potential site location please contact us with your site location along with any other details about the wall and the business or residence it is located on. We are looking to pick locations that are in full alignment with the mission of Mending Walls. Criteria below is preferred but not limited to.
Parameters for site selection:
-High impactful locations that are high traffic.
-Minority Owned Business’s
-Advertisements within the mural will not be permitted
The Poe Museum
“Inspired by recent political activism, Poe Museum Leadership reached out to local artists to create something meaningful and beautiful on the boards that now cover the windows of the Old Stone House. This led to a partnership with Mending Walls RVA. The theme of the installation is “We Need To Talk” and it features local artists of different cultural backgrounds working together through public art to fuel connections and empathy to start the tough conversations.”
Mending Walls RVA
““The artwork created at the @poemuseum last Tuesday has been installed over the windows, door, and even the wrought iron fence. Each board addressing a different topic surrounding social constructs and public issues that need mending while all collectively proclaiming “WE NEED TO TALK!”
Art can truly change the world. Perhaps the words we use can be misunderstood, but through the vision of others we might come to an understanding.
* Photography credits to the above organizations.
