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
“Colors of my City”
Exterior latex and spray paint on wall
Brownsville, Brooklyn
2023 - 2024
a mural project commissioned by The New York Foundling for the community of Vital Brookdale in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Exterior latex and spray paint on wall
Brownsville, Brooklyn
2023 - 2024
a mural project commissioned by The New York Foundling for the community of Vital Brookdale in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
“Feather of Truth“
A new diptych mural painted for the entrances at Rutger’s Honors Living Learning Community in Newark. This piece is the result of a multilayered collaboration between students, staff and history. The starting point is a drawing made by alumni Vivian Peralta Santana titled “Pursuit of Justice” from which modeling ideas were developed for the final design. The mural also looks at education, depictions of justice, resistance, hope and community. These ideas are also reflected in the quotes found in the mural, which have been sourced from staff and students. They read:
“Kaanzheelundamuneen Wuskiinohtaasuwaakan”
~ Chief Vincent Mann
"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society"
~ Sonia Sotomayor
“No hay cambio sin sueño, como no hay sueño sin esperanza.”
~ Paulo Freire
“Our pasts are interconnected, our futures are independent - this life is collective”
~ Ana Monteiro
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
~ George Washington Carver
Big shout out to the faculty and staff but specially to the production and curation of Anonda Bell
Model: Evelyn Corder
Assistant: Michaela Lozada
A new diptych mural painted for the entrances at Rutger’s Honors Living Learning Community in Newark. This piece is the result of a multilayered collaboration between students, staff and history. The starting point is a drawing made by alumni Vivian Peralta Santana titled “Pursuit of Justice” from which modeling ideas were developed for the final design. The mural also looks at education, depictions of justice, resistance, hope and community. These ideas are also reflected in the quotes found in the mural, which have been sourced from staff and students. They read:
“Kaanzheelundamuneen Wuskiinohtaasuwaakan”
~ Chief Vincent Mann
"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society"
~ Sonia Sotomayor
“No hay cambio sin sueño, como no hay sueño sin esperanza.”
~ Paulo Freire
“Our pasts are interconnected, our futures are independent - this life is collective”
~ Ana Monteiro
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
~ George Washington Carver
Big shout out to the faculty and staff but specially to the production and curation of Anonda Bell
Model: Evelyn Corder
Assistant: Michaela Lozada
"In Fulcrum / In Lak'ech"
Rutgers University Newark, NJ
2023
A hallway mural installed at Rutgers University for the Department of Urban Education. The text of the piece comes from a poem by Luis Valdez based on a Mayan philosophical concept and reads:
In Lak’ech
Tú eres mi otro yo.
You are my other me.
Si te hago daño a ti,
If I do harm to you,
Me hago daño a mi mismo. I do harm to myself.
Si te amo y respeto,
If I love and respect you, Me amo y respeto yo.
I love and respect myself.