Artist Statement I am a firm believer that tradition is very important in our lives. The Bronx area has a big immigrant and blue collar community. What they have in common is the manual labor, earning the bread with your hands. I always remember the...
Artist Statement: Chinatown’s history is full of hardship, but also full of love. Doyers Street is located in Chinatown, intersecting with Pell Street at its very end, as if a flying dragon is winding its way up and resting at the intersection of the two...
About the Mural Lifelong Bronx resident Andre Trenier presents “Rep Your Flag”—an homage to the immigrant communities that give the Bronx its strength. The 16 included flags were determined directly from community feedback: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras,...
About the Mural Jose Rodriguez‘s mural encourages students to directly interact with it, and otherwise get them to exercise more and be healthy.During our student workshops, we were able to find out how they previously utilized the space on their playground with games they made up on the spot....
About the Murals ArtBridge is pleased to announce the completion of three large-scale stepstreet mural installations in the South Bronx. Diana Perea’s “Blue-Winged Warbler” can be found at Third Avenue and Weiher Court. It features a hexagonal pattern inspired by the honeycombs of beehives and the...
About In August, ArtBridge, working in partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, launched an RFP to Bronx artists that resulted in over 50 proposals. A curatorial panel of Bronx arts dignitaries narrowed the submissions to six finalists. At a public event at...