Request for mural proposals!
THRIVING FUTURES
In celebration of 12 years of organizing in Ithaca NY,
“Get Your GreenBack Tompkins" funded 17 murals in the Ithaca area in 2023!
Theme: “Building a future where all people & living environments thrive."
1 Mural for Cornell Cooperative Extension
​16 electrical boxes throughout Ithaca
​Mural at BJM of Kirby Edmonds, Audrey Cooper, & Beverly Martin
This initiative wasn't just about murals.  Finalists and organizing team met together 3 times during April-June 2023.  GYGB's goal was to inspire and fund a cohort of artists thinking together on the themes below. 
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Back wall of 615 Willow Ave.
Wall Facing W. Lincoln St. & Route 13
20 artists sent in proposals for this wall and a jury of 25 CCE staff selected Margaret Kops Kuveke's design.
Get Your GreenBack Tompkins funded Margaret $6,000 to paint the wall. 
Electrical Boxes 
Themes? ​“Get Your GreenBack Tompkins" funded artists to paint 16 electrical boxes incorporating these themes...
1 - Building a future where all people and living environments thrive,
2 - Intersection of equity and environmental justice,
3 - Land and food justice,
4 - What does a just and sustainable future look like?
35 artists sent in proposals for electrical boxes and a jury of community members selected winning designs to be painted on 16 electrical boxes!
Electrical box artists were funded $450 for each box
Thanks to these Amazing Artists for Painting Electrical Boxes!
Triple Entendre Art (Karolina Piorko, Maya Kamaeva​, Ami Mehta)
Youth from Tikkun V'Or
Susan Eschbach
Dorothy Lovelace
Kel Swensen
B[ethany] Parisi
Isaac Sharp
Stacia Humby
Delaney Lemberg, Maggie Butcher, Jesse Wright
Vivinne Williams
Samarra Khaja
Emily Hoyt
Rachel Feirman
Josh Swartwood
Muhamed Kafedzic
Cruz Newman
BJM LEGACY MURAL
​by artist Margalo Guo
Audrey J Cooper  ●  Beverly J Martin  ●  Kirby V Edmonds
These portraits are the beginning of an ongoing mural of local leaders for educational equity and justice, who have helped to uplift Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, the Ithaca community, and beyond!
Orgs facilitating this initiative with Ithaca Murals...
​After 12 years of organizing, “Get Your GreenBack Tompkins" is ending.  We were excited for this collaboration with Ithaca Murals to be a parting gift - part of our finale.  The organizing is shifting... and the work continues!
Smart Energy Choices is a program of Cornell Cooperative Extension that provides free energy advising to residents, small commercial, non-profit and multifamily building owners and managers to help them reduce their energy use, switch to renewable energy, save money, and improve the comfort of their homes and buildings.
Ithaca Murals is a fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.
​Donate to Ithaca Murals HERE!