On The West Lawn Through November 2020
The National Building Museum, in partnership with the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), is pleased to present Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art. Located on the Museum’s West Lawn (5th Street NW, between F and G streets), the exhibition features D.C. street art created earlier this summer in response to social justice protests in the nation’s capital and elsewhere. The murals speak to the impact that art can have on the built environment as well as the nation’s urgent need for dialogue and reflection.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Gallery Place Murals in Exhibition Order
1. Shawn Perkins (Detroit, Michigan), @sptheplug • Black Lives Matter (In Name and Word)
2. The Denver Smith Foundation (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), @denversmithfoundation • We Run With Ahmaud
3. Keiona Clark (Washington, D.C.), @keionaclarkart • Support the Movement
4.1. The Denver Smith Foundation + Nicole Joseph (Washington, D.C.) • Sunflower
4.2. Good Letters Design (Washington, D.C.), @goodlettersdesign • She Matters
4.3. The Denver Smith Foundation • Black Women #SayHerName
5. Dez Zambrano (Los Angeles, California), @dezcustomz • Peace Dove
6. Dez Zambrano • Black Lives Matter
7. Levi Robinson (Newark, New Jersey), @levirobinsonart + Dez Zambrano • Black Lives Matter
8. Luther Wright (Washington, D.C.), @lwart • Black Lives Matter
9. Sonia Jones (Washington, D.C.), @soniajonestheartist • Panther Party
10. Jay Durrah (Washington, D.C.), @jay_durrah • Am I Next?
11. Shani Shih (Washington, D.C.), @shanishih • One Under the Sun
12. Shani Shih • All Power to the People
13. Senia Cade (Queens, New York), @sc._art • Just Getting Started
14. Miguel Davis Jr. (Washington, D.C.), @sivadart_ • Let Us Breathe
15. Kimeko Robinson (Washington, D.C.), @tkokocreole • Black Lives Matter/God Is Love
16. Sonia Jones • Little Black Girl
17. Moses Rivera (Washington, D.C.), @mosart_artwear / Black Lives Matter
18. Moses Rivera • Black Lives Matter 2
2020 March on Washington Guest Mural
19. Keith Smith (Chicago, Illinois), @afrokilla • The Light of the World
The Big Six
1. Shawn Perkins (Detroit, Michigan), @sptheplug • John Lewis
2. Demont Pinder (Queens, New York), @demontpinder • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Dez Zambrano (Los Angeles, California), @dezcustomz • Whitney Moore Young Jr.
4. Levi Robinson (Newark, New Jersey), @levirobinsonart • A. Philip Randolph & Dorothy Height
5. Mohammed Gafar (Saudi Arabia), @kreativecustomkicks • James Farmer Jr.
6. Jamaal Lamaaj (Washington, D.C.), @jlamaaj • Roy Wilkins
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