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CMAP/ Follow Your Vision

FOLLOW YOUR VISION

Groundswell Community Mural Project ©
www.groundswellmural.org

Acrylic on Wall
7 x 54 Ft
2006

Lead Artist: Eduardo Alexander Rabel
Assistant Artist: Alex Pimienta

Location: M.S. 399 & P.S. 33, Bronx, NY

Community Partner: Inwood House's Youth for R.E.A.L, M.S. 399 & P.S. 33

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Follow Your Vision is based on the dual themes of ‘leadership’ & ‘career visions.’ The participants were students from the Youth for R.E.A.L. after school program at M.S. 399 and nearby P.S. 33. Staff and interns from Youth for R.E.A.L. also volunteered to help paint. The participants learned about a variety of historical and contemporary leaders, with an emphasis on Black and Latino leaders in order to reflect the demographics of the community. They learned how leadership can take many different forms and how people can show leadership in whichever profession they have chosen.

The mural includes portraits of 14 important Black and Latino leaders from different geographic backgrounds and walks of life. Equal numbers of men and women are represented. A numbered star next to each portrait corresponds to a key that lists the name of each individual and a brief description of what s/he is known for:

1. Wangari Maathai - Kenyan environmentalist & Nobel Peace Prize winner
2. Nelson Mandela - first Black president of South Africa; leader of the African National Congress; Nobel Peace Prize winner
3. Rosa Parks - civil rights activist from Alabama
4. Nat Turner - leader of a revolt against slavery in Virginia
5. Alicia Keys - singer & activist against AIDS & poverty in Africa
6. César Chávez - Mexican-American labor leader; co-founder of United Farm Workers
7. Dr . Martin Luther King Jr.- minister; civil rights leader; Nobel Peace Prize winner
8. Frida Kahlo - Mexican artist
9. Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)- minister & human rights activist; founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
10. Mary McLeod Bethune - teacher who started a school for African-American girls; founder of the National Council of Negro Women; presidential advisor
11. Oscar de la Renta - Dominican fashion designer
12. Iris Baez - Puerto Rican activist against police brutality in New York ; mother of Anthony Baez
13. Kadiatou Diallo - Guinean activist against police brutality in New York; mother of Amadou Diallo; author; businesswoman
14. Felipe Luciano - New York Puerto Rican activist & reporter; founder of the Young Lords Party