{"id":962,"date":"2018-09-11T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/?p=962"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T22:47:46","slug":"watch-norwood-mural-brightens-bainbridge-thisisthebronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/watch-norwood-mural-brightens-bainbridge-thisisthebronx\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH! NORWOOD MURAL BRIGHTENS BAINBRIDGE,  ThisistheBronx"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"962\" class=\"elementor elementor-962\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cf29892 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"4cf29892\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-482e310c\" data-id=\"482e310c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59ccaae1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59ccaae1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>The images are simple, the colors are bright and the message is positive. \u00a0Every day life for people walking 207th Street near Bainbridge Avenue just got a little sunnier thanks to a 40\u2032 x 12\u2032 mural designed by artist Laura Avarez, painted by local people, and supported\/funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/art-bridge.org\">ArtBridge,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquitex.com\/\">Liquitex Artist Materials<\/a>, and Councilman Andrew Cohen. Also a shout out goes to local resident Elisabeth von Uhl for her efforts in igniting this project.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Art Bridge team took on a three-year effort to transform the wall from graffiti-tagged to a community work of art. Once administrative and property approvals were finally in place, the wall took three days to paint.<\/p>\n\n<p>For Alvarez, the simple imagery has deep meaning in the roots of the people of Norwood.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThe Bronx has a large immigrant and blue collar community,\u201d she said, \u201cand manual labor\u00a0is a common theme: earning the bread with your hands. I always remember my grandmother \u00a0working at home sewing, crocheting and knitting. She used to make crochet flower mats for everything. That\u2019s the inspiration for the mural\u2019s background flowers, which lay on top of the blue of the Mediterranean Sea I grew up looking at. 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