Groundswell Community Mural Project and Fifth Avenue Committee hosted a community paint day and mural dedication celebrating The Heartbeat of Gowanus, a 100-foot mural at the FAC Center for Community Development (182 4th Avenue, Brooklyn).

Groundswell NYC partnered with the Brooklyn Nets to create a large scale mural titled “The Sky Isn’t the Limit” at P.S. 938 and M.S. 935 in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.

Groundswell NYC partnered with Paramount and Center for Family Life to support a community mural project titled “Together Under the Sun” at I.S. 136 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Groundswell Community Mural Project partnered with CABS Health Network to create a vibrant dual mural celebrating care, community, and the next generation of caregivers.

On September 26, 2023, Groundswell NYC partnered with the Brownsville Community Justice Center and L+M Development Partners to unveil the community-designed mural “We Are, I Am” at the Marcus Garvey Apartments in Brownsville.

Created through a collaboration between the Jeremiah Program and Groundswell Community Mural Project’s Voices Her’d program, the project brought together youth artists, mothers, and community members through conversations and workshops that informed the mural’s design.

In response to community feedback about how cancer information is shared and understood, Dr. Erica Phillips, co-principal investigator for the Center for Social Capital (SoCa) and Multigenerational Health at Weill Cornell Medicine, partnered with Groundswell NYC to launch the Murals for Change initiative.

Groundswell NYC brought the community together for a mural dedication and paint day at the Food Bazaar on Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick, unveiling the vibrant mural titled “Making His’tory: El Paso Del Tiempo.”

At Groundswell NYC, we host student exhibitions in our studio to celebrate the creativity and hard work of our youth artists.

We are proud to share that our Executive Director, Yvonne Brathwaite, has been honored by the CABS Health Network as a recipient of the Circle of Care Award.

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On September 21, 2023, Groundswell NYC partnered with students from New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies — including both the Middle School and High School — to create a new mural titled “Unity.”