Murals at Southside Community Center
UMOJA Unity, Kujichagulia Self-Determination, Ujima Collective Responsibility, Ujamaa Cooperative Economics, Nia Purpose, Kuumba Creativity, Imani Faith.
There's 30+ murals at Southside!
Southside welcomes artists interested in painting at Southside themes that resonate with our mission below!
Southside Community Center is an amazing justice organization in Ithaca, so artists gifting their services to Southside can have free access to the Ithaca Murals “Paint Library".  We also have paint, ladders, scaffold, and happy to support! ​​
If you're an artist interested in painting, contact Ithaca Murals with these:
  1. Image/sketch of the mural you'd like to paint 
  2. ​3-5 examples of artistic/painting experience
Murals at Southside & our Neighborhood
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Southside Bike Murals!
In the summer of 2021, Southside invited 2 artists to paint murals at RIBs.
RIBs (Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles) is a program of Southside Community Center.
“To affirm, empower, and foster Black leadership and liberation through bicycling in our community."
Walls in our building we wish to enliven!
At Southside, we celebrate Juneteenth all year round!
Here's Mr. Ken Glover sharing Juneteenth libation.
More info about Southside:
Instagram: @ithacasouthsidepride
Facebook: Southside Community Center, Inc.
Website: sspride.org
Phone: ​(607) 273-4190
Southside Community Center: 305 S Plain St.
Want to paint a mural at Southside? 
​​Text Caleb at 607-273-5242​
Southside's Mission:
Since its incorporation in 1934, the Southside Community Center, Inc., continues to affirm, empower, and foster the development of self-pride among the African-American residents of greater Ithaca. Through forums and activities in education, recreation, political and social awareness, the Southside Community Center is a community resource center. We serve as a vehicle to develop an appreciation for the contributions and presence of those peoples of African descent in the greater Ithaca community and in the larger world community.
Donate directly to Southside HERE.
Link to original 2022 "BLACK FUTURES" mural grant application
Ithaca Murals is a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.
​Donate to Ithaca Murals HERE!