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About the Garden:

Rosette Street Garden is our newest garden and apiary in New Haven, and our first city-leased lot. Until this past April, it was vacant, despite plans being made in 2017 to turn it into a butterfly garden (based on neighborhood votes and preferences). The Huneebee Project has since added a shed, picnic table (constructed by Hill House High School's shop class), 3 honey bee hives, and 5 garden beds with pollinator flowers and shrubs, peppers, chard, watermelon, cauliflower, and eggplant. The fruit and vegetables are divided amongst our team and given to neighbors.

This community-based artwork will add the final touch to make this garden feel like a PLACE of peace, love, and unity.

The community will be invited to help paint the mural on Saturday, October 8th.

About Huneebee Project:

Huneebee Project is a New Haven-based non-profit social enterprise with two core missions: to promote environmental conservation in disinvested neighborhoods and equitable job preparedness for local youth. Huneebee offers transferable job-skills training and employment opportunities to youth with past or present child protective or foster care involvement while also installing and maintaining bee hives, supporting pollinator habitat restoration, and hosting free educational workshops on backyard beekeeping and planting for pollinators. In the process of empowering and supporting our youth, Huneebee Project seeks to foster community building, collaboration, and kinship for purposes of environmental conservation and environmental justice.

Since piloting its first therapeutic, job-skills training cohort in 2018, Huneebee has launched an online marketplace of locally sourced honey-based products, pollinator seed packs, planters, and beeswax candles. They presently maintain 30 honey bee hives across seven garden sites in New Haven, Bridgeport, North Haven, and Clinton and employ youth in positions ranging from garden site managers, operations assistants, bee apprentices, and junior bee instructors.

About RiseUP for Arts:

RiseUP for Arts is a project started by the non-profit, The RiseUP Group, in 2015 to create public art that is inclusive and accessible for anyone.

We have completed over 100 murals and place-making projects (and counting) throughout Connecticut, we work with 40+ local artists, partner with 100's of communities and organizations and host 1,000+ volunteers per year to help paint our murals. RiseUP for Arts creates public art through donations, grants, and community goodwill.

We support artists, cities, other nonprofits, companies, and local community members in making their mural projects come to life. We help create the vision and manage the entire process to beautify communities through public art.

View some of RiseUP’s previous projects at www.theriseupgroup.org

https://lightsanddarks.com/about-heather/

 

About East Windsor Arts & Culture Committee:

 

The EW Arts & Culture Committee plans to serve the East Windsor Community by enhancing the knowledge, enjoyment, and appreciation of arts and culture.

 

About RiseUP

 

RiseUP for Arts supports artists, cities, other nonprofits, companies, and local community members in making their mural projects come to life. We help create the vision and manage the entire process of beautifying communities through public art. RiseUP is Connecticut’s source for public art and mural, having completed over 75 mural and placemaking projects throughout CT. More info at www.theriseupgroup.org

We started a GoFundMe page for you to help support: https://gofund.me/20390ba2

Parkville Paints Project has the opportunity to transform and redefine the Parkville neighborhood for decades to come, and it will happen with support from individuals like you. This type of project will bring the community together, bring artists together, and bring businesses together to really transform something in a GRASSROOTS way.

Murals will stretch along Park Street, Bartholomew Ave, and Hamilton Street to create a trail of beautiful artwork for residents and visitors to enjoy.

 

The murals will be a blend of artist inspiration and also highlight the history of the neighborhood. For example, one of the murals will be located on a highly visible wall on the corner of Park Street and New Park Ave. The mural will honor the historical figures of Parkville (Margaret Clapis Merriman and Joseph A. Langlais) while highlighting the innovation and creativity that is the future of Parkville. Blending history, today's reality and the community's future into beautiful pieces of art. 

 

Another mural is slated for the Charter Oak Boxing Association and honoring Hartford's boxing champion Willie Pep.

The PPP will put hundreds of thousands of dollars into the local creative economy and Parkville neighborhood that will benefit for decades. This support for public art will transform the historic Parkville neighborhood into a world-class art and creative destination.

 

Benefits of this Public Art Project

 

Covering the neighborhood with professional street art will inject additional energy into Parkville that compliments the current developments happening to revitalize the neighborhood. Studies have shown that public art and murals strengthen a community's identity and have tremendous cultural and economic benefits.

 

In addition to the neighborhood benefits, localized public art also supports the local creative workforce by creating work opportunities that local artists would otherwise need to travel far distances or move out of the community to have. These mural projects will pay local artists living and competitive wages to complete the murals.

 

Estimated Timeline

Summer 2022: Project Launch & Start Murals

Fall 2022: Continue fundraising and more murals!

 

We will continue painting additional walls through the Fall of 2022 and Spring of 2023 with expected completion of the initial ~50,000 sq ft of projects by Summer of 2023.

Mural Honorees:

Margaret Clapis Merriman, aka Mayor of Parkville and Former Executive Director Parkville Senior Center

Read More: Extraordinary Life After leaving North Dakota Margaret Clapis Merriman became a force for good in Hartford Hartford Courant 

Joseph A. Langlais, Former President of Parville Community Association

Brief History of Parkville

The Parkville neighborhood of Hartford was once a manufacturing and innovation hub, home to several major factories, including Pope Manufacturing, Columbia Bicycle, the Underwood and Royal Typewriters, the Gray Telephone Pay Station, and more.

Today it is home to some of the most innovative businesses in Hartford, like Real Art Ways, Hog River Brewing, DesignSourceCT, reSET, RiseUP for Arts, Pine & Axe Axe Throwing, HARDENCO (local denim company), and Hartford Flavor Company. The neighborhood is a true community and has an authentic spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration—definitely influenced by the rich history here.

 

About RiseUP

 

RiseUP for Arts supports artists, cities, other nonprofits, companies, and local community members in making their mural projects come to life. We help create the vision and manage the entire process of beautifying communities through public art. RiseUP is Connecticut’s source for public art and mural, having completed over 75 mural and placemaking projects throughout CT. More info at www.theriseupgroup.org

About Parkville Market:

THE FIRST FOOD HALL IN CONNECTICUT. WE’RE HOUSED IN THE FORMER CAPITOL CITY LUMBER CO. BUILDING IN ONE OF HARTFORD'S MOST UP-AND-COMING NEIGHBORHOODS - PARKVILLE.

FOOD, EVENTS, AND EXPERIENCES CURATED TO CELEBRATE CONNECTICUT.

19 unique restaurants

Pop-up shops and weekly entertainment

Hub for communal dining and gathering

Private event spaces

Indoor and outdoor dining for 400+

Plenty of free parking

https://parkvillemarket.com/about/

To see previous mural projects by RiseUP for Arts, please visit www.ctmurals.org

Mural Concept:

 

 

 

Budget:

 

Artist/Management Payment $8,000

Prep work $1,500

Paint/Supplies $2,000

Community Painting/Workshops $500

Total $12,000

 

About the SKB Memorial Scholarship Committee:

 

Samuel K. Beamon was a beacon of light in the Waterbury community, always putting others before himself. IN honor of his dedication to others, the SKB Memorial Scholarship Committee was formed to award scholarships to Waterbury youth demonstrating selflessness. They host the annual SKB "Day of Service" in June to rally the Waterbury community to get out serve others.

 

About RiseUP for Arts: www.theriseupgroup.org

 

RISEUP FOR ARTS is a non-profit aimed at creating public art that is inclusive and accessible for anyone.

 

RiseUP for Arts has completed over 150 mural and place-making projects since 2015 throughout Connecticut. RiseUP works with 50+ local, professional artists, collaborates with 100's of partners, and hosts 1,000+ volunteers per year to help beautify our communities.

 

RiseUP for Arts, creates public art through public art consulting and curating, donations, grants, and community goodwill. RiseUP supports artists, cities, other nonprofits, companies, and local community members in making their public art projects come to life. The organization helps create the vision and manages the entire process to beautify communities.

Learn more about last year's Juneteenth on We-Ha.com: https://we-ha.com/its-a-movement-not-a-moment-resounding-theme-of-west-hartfords-juneteenth-celebration/

 

 

 

 

 

Juneteenth Partners:

 

Town of West Hartford

Concerned Parents of Color

RiseUP for Arts

West Hartford African American Social and Cultural Org (WHAASCO)

First Church

West Hartford Public Library

West Hartford Public Schools

Noah Webster House

Witness Stones Project

West Hartford Historical Society

The mural's lead artist will be Emida Roller with support from local artists and the community. More about Emida's work can be found at https://www.emidaroller.com/.

 

We are seeking to raise $15,000.   The total budget is $15,000 and includes artist payment, materials and supplies, community engagement, and a community mural celebration. 

Offline donations can be mailed to: The RiseUP Group, Inc. 942 Main Street. Hartford, CT 06103.

 

This mural will leave a positive impact on Hamden for decades and we appreciate your support!

 

Previous MLK39 Murals in Southington and Mansfield that were painted by Emida Roller:

 

 

 

 

 

About RiseUP for Arts:

 

RiseUP for Arts is a project started by the non-profit, The RiseUP Group, in 2015 to create public art that is inclusive and accessible for anyone.

 

We have completed over 75 mural and placemaking projects throughout Connecticut, we’ve worked with over 40 local artists, over 100 partners, and we host 1,000 plus volunteers per year to help paint our murals. RiseUP creates public art through donations, grants, and community goodwill.

 

We support artists, cities, other nonprofits, companies, and local community members in making their mural projects come to life. We help create the vision and manage the entire process to beatify communities through public art.

 

Visit www.ctmurals.com for more information.

The mural will be painted by local mural artist, Emida Roller with support from the community. More about Emida's work can be found at https://www.emidaroller.com/.

 

We are seeking to raise $15,000 to bring the mural into Putnam. The budget includes artist payment, materials and supplies, community engagement, and a community mural celebration.

 

Hometown Bank has generously kick-started our fundraising with a $2,500 contribution that will be matched for the first $2,500 we raise. Other partners for the project include the Hale YMCA Youth and Family Center, Sawmill Pottery, Art Guild Northeast, and town of Putnam.

 

This mural will leave a positive impact on Putnam for decades and we appreciate your support!

 

Mural location:

 

Previous MLK Murals by Emida Roller:

 

 

 

 

Each MLK Mural is inspired by the community and we encourage you to complete the mural design survey: https://forms.gle/nXWdwhREZgEeySHr7

 

The team is still determining the final lead and emerging artists that will be painting the mural but it will be painted by an experienced Connecticut based artist of color.

 

Sample Previous MLK39 Murals in Connecticut:

 

Mansfield:

 

Manchester:

West Hartford:

 

 

Learn more about Bristol Arts & Culture Commission:

https://bristolallheart.com/heart-squad/city-arts-culture-comission/

 

Learn more about RiseUP for Arts & the State-wide MLK39 Mural Tour:

www.theriseupgroup.org/mlk39