When Walls Build Bridges
/A Commentary & Review of A NEW COLOR
By John Bennison, Mountain Shadow Director
[This film was Mountain Shadow's selection for June 2016]
Artistic expression is typically reserved for gallery exhibitions; and by those with a pedigree of obvious talent. Even so-called “folk art” required the credentialed critic’s approval and the test of time, before posthumous recognition was even a possibility. But when Edy Boone found the gumption within herself to demand that the city’s public housing authority in Harlem clean up the squalid conditions in which she was trying to live a life, she was given some paint, and left to her own imagination and devices. As a result, she found herself and her vocation in a term she’d never known before: muralist.
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