Last summer, as tensions rose over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, store owners in New York boarded up their businesses in anticipation of rioting or looting.
Now, weeks after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd s murder, a a group of artists have taken the wooden planks used to board up those shops and transformed them into outdoor art.
The artists were chosen from among 200 entrants to participate in the Plywood Protection Project, using some 200 pieces of plywood sourced from local stores.
Their sculptures address a variety of issues, from Black Lives Matter to the return of public performance in the wake of COVID-19.
When my kindergarten teacher asked us to name sea life, I shouted, “Mermaids!”
“Sorry, Jason, they’re not real,” she said to my embarrassed 6-year-old self.
However, the Mermaid Museum in Berlin, Maryland, takes a different approach.
“You know, your teacher might be wrong,” Creator Alyssa Maloof told WTOP. “You come to the museum and see some of these sightings from the first century all the way to 2017, and your mind might be changed that there really are mermaids.”
Maloof, a seasoned photographer with 20 years of experience, officially opened the museum March 27.
“I came to this sweet little gem of a town in Berlin from Philadelphia and got this amazing space,” Maloof said. “It’s a small tourist town eight miles from the beach. … I’ve always loved mermaids. Everybody does. During the pandemic, I decided to just fully go for it.”
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