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PEACE Mural featured on NJNNews

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PEACE Mural featured on the cover of the Star Ledger

The PEACE Mural’s completion was timed to greet Nobel Laureates, His Holiness, the XIVth Dalai Lama,  Dr. Shirin Ebadi, and Jody Williams, and the Newark Peace Education Summit that took place in Newark May 13th – 15th.

The winning artwork, designed by Dan Fenelon, was chosen by a Community Panel including Mary Sue Sweeney-Price, Director & CEO of Newark Museum; Deputy Mayor Margarita Muniz; Jeremy Johnson, Philanthropic Liason to the City of Newark; Linwood Oglesby, Director Newark Arts Council; Hope Gamble, Newark Peace Education Summit Coordinator; Debby Kaminsky, Newark Yoga Movement; James Sheeley, Director of Visual and Performing Arts, NPS; Richard Grossklaus, VP Integrity House; and Chandri Barat, Executive Director of Barat Foundation.

The mural was painted on 5′ x 5′ panels at over 10 Newark Schools and at the Barat Foundation at 765 Broad Street. Over 500 Newark youth, and scores of volunteers were directly involved in painting the PEACE Mural!

PEACE Mural on Mural Locator

Mural Locator – a web tool for helping people locate murals – featured the PEACE Mural on May 10th. Their goal is to find locations of amazing public art wall murals to share them with you and to help archive the history and importance of murals. We connect with artists, muralists, and art foundations to expand the knowledge of art.

http://murallocator.org/newark-peace-mural/6391

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Mar 4, 2009 … Jamie DuffyThe Obamas in Grant Park by Lady Bird Strickland is on display at the offices of Jazz 88, WBGO-FM on Park Place in Newark where …

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Nov 19, 2009 … The seven benefiting agencies are: Vacamas, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties, Barat Foundation, …

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Jun 26, 2008 … Jamie DuffyName this celebrity! Lady Bird Strickland, African-American artist who chronicled Harlem life in the jazzy 1940s and on, …

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Apr 16, 2009 … The Barat Foundation, a Newark-based nonprofit educational corporation providing art and academic programs to inner-city kids, toasted the …

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Jul 18, 2008 … The colorful and realistic paintings of Lady Bird Strickland filled the gallery of the Barat Foundation on Broad Street in Newark, …

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Essex/Hudson United Way receives $300000 grant from PSEG …

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