Next50

Mixed Media Mural, 2014

Innovation Space, Arsenal Project, Watertown, MA

This project was originally envisioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Partners of the Americas, an organization which builds cultural and educational partnerships and capacity across the Americas. The prompt for the project, designed to get people thinking of the future of our cross-continental relationship, was: “What are your dreams, your hopes and your fears/ for the Americas’ next fifty years?” Participants from Emerson College, Cambridge Community Art Center, Lawrence Public Schools, South End Health Center, Mosesian Center for the Arts and others engaged in workshops writing and performing poetry in response to this prompt. They then added excerpts of these poems, and/or related images, to spray-painted records and CDs, which were later integrated into the larger mandala.