Elmhurst Literary Mural Project

Join this fundraising campaign for the maintenance and cultural dissemination of the first Elmhurst Literary Mural in Elmhurst,Queens through cultural activities in the Elmhurst community. Participate today to support a BOOK CULTURE IN ELMHURST through art, and literature and history. The Visual Arts Program of Barco de Papel Cultural Center together with Intercultural Cardboard Press Inc, based in Queens County, New York has launched this fundraising campaign on for $4500. The campaign aims to face the expenses of the cultural programming around the mural which include creative writing workshops, open calls for performance art, publishing fanzines, public art that will be painted on different sites of the neighborhood one of the Elmhurst neighborhood.

The budget for carrying out this project is approximate $4500. Thank you in advance for your contribution, for supporting us and supporting a neighborhood that represents diversity. Without a doubt, your contribution will make the difference. ELMHURST LITERARY MURAL, depicts the interpretation of five literary pieces of some of the great writers who have used New York City as the background of their most acclaimed literary stories.

The selection was no easy task. We are aware that this is only a small representation of the thousands and thousands of pages that New York and its five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, inspire. The books and writer selected for this project are:The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger; The Invisible City, Pete Hamill; The Anthem, Sonia Sanchez; Latin Moon Over Manhattan, Jaime Manrique; and Spiks by Pedro Juan Soto. These represent the sociology of the times in which they were written and a complex iconography of their characters; archetypes, which allows participating artists to reformulate the intrahistory with creative solutions, to develop their own plastic discourse by uniting the history of the neighborhood and the cultural traditions proper of where the mural will be exhibited.

Artists participating in the mural: Anthony Andujar (Dominican / Puerto Rico), Diego Castillo (Dominican Republic), Laura Giron (Colombia), Stephanie Jimenez (Colombia), Santiago Lenis (Colombia), Natasha Ocoro (Colombia), Miriam Rodriguez (Puerto Rico), Dayana Sadova ( Kazakhstan), Andley Tyson (Jamaica) and Fei Yin (China). The selected artists were part of a call made in late October 2016 at La Guardia Community College.

Curators: Joyce Sanchez, Visual Arts Program Director; Arianne Fernandez, Art History Professor at La Guardia Community College.

Our budget for cultural activities is the following: Prodction of. 2 artist talk, 5 symposiums, 5 literary workshops $300 Production of 3 fanzines: $200 Graphic design for flyers and posters: $300 Refreshments: $200 Publishing 2000 newspaper: $600 200 catalogues: $900

This proposal seeks to make use of the urban space of the city through visual art. It is a mural that will form part of the rhythm of life of its inhabitants. A delight of thousands of looks. An artistic gallery at the level of the sidewalk with its own identity and the intention of reviving the area where it is located. For additional information about the mural visit our blog: visualartsbarcodepapel.wordpress.com