BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Public Art: Murals by Joel Bergner (aka Joel Artista)

MD -- Public Art: Murals by Joel Bergner (aka Joel Artista):

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Description of Pictures: Global Refugee Mural (by Joel Bergner)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MURBER_090602_13.JPG: This is the artist -- Joel Bergner
2. MURBER_090618_02.JPG: "Please use your liberty to promote ours." - Aung San Sookyi
3. MURBER_090618_07.JPG: The Global Refugee Mural by Joel Bergner (c) 2009 creative director Tom Block This mural tells the stories of 3 refugees who live here in Maryland, who were interviewed for this project. Georges, a former mayor of his city in eastern Congo (DRC), fled with his family when the war came to his region. Mai, from Myanmar (aka Burma), was unable to return to his country due to religious persecution by the government. Taameem, from southern Iraq, fled after her brother was murdered by local militia members and she was targeted as well. Funded by the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Partnership with the International Rescue Committee's refugee resettlement center in Silver Spring. Special thanks to Kefa Cafe. Artist & Project info: (415) 845-2699 email: joeljoel88@yahoo.com www.joelsmurals.com "The Global Refugee Mural" tells the story of three refugees who live in Maryland. Joel painted it on the outside wall of Kefa Cafe in downtown Silver Spring, and based the ideas for the mural on interviews he conducted with the three refugees. The mural deals with the mural rights abuses in each of the three refugees' homelands as well as celebrating the culture and traditions there. The first section of the mural tells the story of Georges, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who was once the mayor of his city. When a violent rebel group attacked his region, he took his family and escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya, and eventually came to the US. The second section shows the story of Mai, a refugee from Myanmar, formerly Burma. When the repressive government discovered that she had visited a Christian church group in the US, she and her family were persecuted and she was unable to return to her country. The third refugee, Taameem, is a woman from the south of Iraq. Her brother, a young and educated man with progressive and democratic ideals, was murdered by a local fundamentalist militia group several years ago. She was targeted by the group as well, and escaped and came to the US as a refugee. This mural was featured on the international news network Al Jazeera English and various local newspapers. The project was funded through a 2009 grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, and has a partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)'s local Refugee Resettlement Center in Silver Spring. Joel Bergner: Joel Bergner's colorful and intensely detailed murals can be found in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Baltimore, Rio de Janeiro, northern Peru, and more. His projects have included solo work, youth projects, and he has directed a series of murals by international artists in DC. Joel's work explores a variety of social and cultural issues, and has covered themes as diverse as immigration in urban America, the civil war in El Salvador, the history of a Baltimore neighborhood, and Afro-Brazilian culture and spirituality. Aside from his art, Joel has done community-based work for many years with emotionally disturbed teenagers, foster youth, the homeless, refugees, and the mentally ill, and has lived and worked in Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, and abroad in Central America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Much of his life and work experience has influenced the themes and subjects of his artwork. His art has appeared in The New York Times, Time magazine, many local and international newspapers, websites, a British journal, and the international TV news networks Voice of America and Al Jazeera English.
4. MURBER_090618_13.JPG: "No matter how long the night the day is sure to come." -- Congolese proverb
5. MURBER_090618_28.JPG: Whoever kills a human being it is as if he has killed all mankind. Whoever saves a person it is as if he has saved all mankind. -- The Holy Koran
6. MURBER_090618_39.JPG: Mural in Silver Spring
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