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Fundraising to Awaken the Underground Railroad Mural!

On Green St. under Aurora St.
Local Black Artist Activists leading this project:
Jackie Richardson​, Maryam Adib, Cyepress Rite, Terrance Vann, Khalil Bey.
A group of Black artists, community leaders, elders, and supporters are adding critical context to the current resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests by re-imagining and expanding the Green Street Underground Railroad Mural.

Ithaca has a rich history of resistance and collective power that needs to be recovered, honored, and preserved, and that's exactly what awakening this mural with fresh new layers of paint intends to do. As formerly enslaved abolitionist, Frederick Douglass said himself:
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Help fund this amazing project!
We raised $9,291 in 2020-2021 plus a grant for $4,000 from Ithacans for ReImagining Public Safety on it's way January 2023.  This leaves us with $21,709 to raise in 2023.
2020-2021 donations
This Southside Community Center & Ithaca Murals collaboration is made possible thanks to...
Rotary Club of Ithaca, Michelle Harty, Rachel Feirman, Community Arts Partnership, Kate & John Finn, Buffalo Street Books, Sarah McNaull, Deborah Jones, Melissa Allen, Charmaine Brathwaite, Carolyn Paul-Alexander, Juliana Quaresma, Betty DeCaires, Illume Projects, David Kraskow, Nicholas Mino, Kyara Moran, Nora Burrows, Mariellen Brown, Kellie Swensen, Elizabeth Richards, Sofia Villenas, Rebecca Creamer, Margaret Wakeley, Tony Ciccone, Katharine Constas, Amanda Schaufler, Alex Sosebee, Chris Griswold, Jessy Certain, Hannah Sumner, Greta Unetich, Jennie Cramer, Shayna Grajo, Katie Sims, Yvette Rubio, Justin Chandler, Daisy Fan, Tricia Klitsch, Kelly Patwell, Lori & Dave Brewer, Nerissa Russell, Taylor Peck, Simon St.​ ​Laurent, Dorota Kossowska, Rebecca Evans, Ashley Cake, Stephanie Valletta, Stephanie Moore, Sarah House, Norma Gutierrez, Southside Community Center!
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This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
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Thanks also to a grant from the ROTARY CLUB of Ithaca fund of the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION of Tompkins County. 

Reading In Between the Paint Strokes

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Honoring the People
Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and unsung abolitionists.
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HOnoring The Land
Acknowledgment of the Cayuga Nation
​and Ithaca's hidden history.
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Honoring The Story
Preserving the blueprint and
Art as a Call to Action.

​I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would ​give every drop of the blood in my veins to free them.
-
Harriet Tubman
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Let's send a message to our community that ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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Click here to join the fundraising/organizing support team.
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Ken Glover, Nia Nunn, Harry O Smith, Keyanna Mozie, Caleb Thomas.
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Mural History
In September 2019, Southside Community Center youth walked to Green St. to clean years of car dust off the mural.

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Underground Railroad Mural by Jonathan Matas painted in 2010.
​Click here to learn more about Jonathan Matas and this beautiful mural.
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Ithaca Murals is a 501(c)3 fiscally sponsored project of the Center for Transformative Action.
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  • About
    • Calendar
    • In The News
    • Videos
    • Local Context
    • Artivism Quotes
    • Other Artivism Orgs
  • Paint
    • Thriving Futures
    • Democracy Walls
    • Grants
    • Mural Ideas
    • Paint
  • Map
    • Tours
    • Classroom Visits
    • Virtual Tour
    • Past Murals
  • Murals
    • Belle Sherman Murals
    • Camp Earth Connection
    • Cayuga Heights Mural
    • Cinemapolis Mural
    • Ithaca Votes
    • Karen Mural
    • Learning Web Mural 2019
    • Northeast Elementary School
    • New Roots Mural 2019
    • Portals to Peace
    • ReUse Murals
    • Sciencenter
    • South Hill Rec Trail
    • Southside Bikes
    • Southside Murals
    • Sunrise on the Green New Deal
    • Terrance Vann @ CCE
    • Underground Railroad Mural
    • Vehicles
    • WellBeing (2021)
    • WellBeing (2022)
    • Year Of Water
    • Latine Murals
    • Dorothy Cotton Mural
  • Artists
    • Artist Survey
  • Contact
    • Survey
    • Organizing Team
    • Cornell WorkStudy
  • DONATE SHOP
    • Donate!
    • Coloring Books!