September 3, 2020
Local artists will come together this Labor Day weekend to paint a series of vibrant murals on the plywood panels currently installed at St. John’s Church located on Black Lives Matter Plaza.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—St. John’s Church, in partnership with the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) and P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute, is pleased to announce a planned mural activation project for this coming Labor Day weekend. Located on the grounds of the Church, at 1525 H Street, NW, Washington, DC, the murals will feature messages and imagery to help unite the community and promote racial justice.
The Rev. Rob Fisher, the Rector of St. John’s, envisions the murals being closely tied in to the meaning of Shalom, the Hebrew word for “peace,” which also means wholeness and the healing that comes with it. “Like the word shalom, we hope these murals will be a blessing, a calling for the much needed healing that comes with being whole communally and individually, spiritually and in a secular sense as well,” says Rev. Fisher. Another theme to be depicted in the murals is the concept of ubuntu, which has been promoted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, meaning “I am because you are.” It is to say, “My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours,” as Tutu puts it.
“The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) supports racial justice and the creation of inclusive, welcoming places for all and we are pleased to be working with the PAINTS Institute and St. Johns Church to further that mission in this historic location,” said BID President and CEO Neil Albert.
Established in 2016, the P.A.I.N.T.S. (Providing Artists with Inspiration in Non-Traditional Settings) Institute is a Washington, DC based STEM+Arts educational nonprofit that provides interactive and engaging programming and activities to youth in underserved communities. Their team of muralists will lead the activities. “These murals will give a creative, visual voice to our community that is wrestling with issues and concerns stemming from the pandemic, protests and the call for racial justice,” says John Chisholm, Executive Director of the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute. “We are both humbled and excited to have this opportunity to showcase the emotions of the community and help further the needed healing process.”
The muralists will be painting “live” at the church this coming Saturday, September 5, 2020 between the hours of 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. At the start, guests are invited to join in a dedication prayer service led by Rev. Fisher. Throughout the day, the public is invited to watch the muralists in real-time; meet the artists; and partake in family-friendly art activities by contributing their own positive messages of hope, love, inspiration and calls for racial justice to prayer wall canvases located on the H Street side of the church. We ask that all attendees comply with both D.C. Government and CDC guidelines regarding masks and social distancing. Thank you for your cooperation.
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
IP Address: 3.144.116.159 -- Domain: Amazon Technologies
I love well-behaved spiders! They are, in fact, how most people find my site. Unfortunately, my network has a limited bandwidth and pictures take up bandwidth. Spiders ask for lots and lots of pages and chew up lots and lots of bandwidth which slows things down considerably for regular folk. To counter this, you'll see all the text on the page but the images are being suppressed. Also, some system options like merges are being blocked for you.
Note: Permission is NOT granted for spiders, robots, etc to use the site for AI-generation purposes. I'm sure you're thrilled by your ability to make revenue from my work but there's nothing in that for my human users or for me.
If you are in fact human, please email me at guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can check if your designation was made in error. Given your number of hits, that's unlikely but what the hell.
") are described as follows: