After the Fire is a participatory mural project by artists Nanibah Chacon, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Layqa Nuna Yawar. Initiated in 2020, the collaborative, process-based approach to mural-making began in a series of workshops with local Queens community groups: Transform America, Make the Road, and members of the Shinnecock, Unkechaug, and Matinecock Nations. Participants discussed elements of society that they would leave behind in service of imagining a more just world. These conversations recognized the ways in which the pandemic laid bare existing racial, environmental, and economic disparities.
What Grows? (2022–24), the first part of the project, depicts a Shinnecock Nation woman emerging from flames, ushering in rebirth after rupture.
The second part of the project, which debuted in September 2024, portrays community members who were directly involved with the mural.
Full info at: www.momaps1.org/en/programs/12-after-the-fire
What Grows? (2022–24), the first part of the project, depicts a Shinnecock Nation woman emerging from flames, ushering in rebirth after rupture.
The second part of the project, which debuted in September 2024, portrays community members who were directly involved with the mural.
Full info at: www.momaps1.org/en/programs/12-after-the-fire