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Art & Design|How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
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Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times
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How Plywood From Last Yearâs Protests Became Art
During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago.
Tanda Francis in her studio, working on her sculpture “RockIt Black,” which was installed in Queensbridge Park in New York this month.Credit.Ike Edeani for The New York Times
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It s been nearly a year since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. Boarded-up storefronts, buildings set aflame and days of protests are burned into people s minds and hearts.
For Leesa Kelly, Kenda Zellner-Smith and Tina Burnside, last May s uprising sparked a mission they hope to pursue for years to come.
Zellner-Smith and Kelly both started collecting the plywood murals that artists painted with messages of solidarity, portraits of Floyd and demands for an end to racialized violence and inequality. They soon joined forces under the banner Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement with the support of Burnside, of the Minnesota African-American Heritage Museum and Gallery.
Group prepares to showcase plywood murals made after the death of George Floyd article
Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement is collecting the plywood murals that were made after the death of George Floyd.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - For the last 11 months, Leesa Kelly has been helping collect unique artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd.
Kelly and others have been collecting the plywood boards that were turned into murals throughout the Twin Cities. And while she’s proud of what they’ve accomplished so far, she knows their job is just the beginning.
Group prepares to showcase plywood murals made after the death of George Floyd
Memorialize the Movement is dedicated to the preservation of the plywood murals created in response to George Floyd’s death Photo: Chioma Uwagwu, courtesy of Memorialize The Movement
The killing of Daunte Wright by a police officer last month has opened wounds afresh in Minnesota, where only a year ago the death of George Floyd, after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sparked protests that spread across the country. With the trial of Chauvin just completed, and new demonstrations over Wright’s homicide, two grassroots groups, in partnership with a Black-led museum, are preserving work created in the aftermath of these events and readying an outdoor art exhibition. Featuring the messages, graffiti and murals made on plywood boards, which covered businesses during the civil unrest that erupted in 2020 after a video of Floyd’s death went viral, the show will also create a space to mourn Black lives senselessly los