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Several pieces of art familiar to anyone from JP made WBUR's list of the top 50 pieces of public art in Greater Boston. We won't spoil all the enjoyment, as scrolling through Greg Cook's well-reasoned list is half the fun. But we were happy to see Rafael Rivera García's epic mural of Taino mythology at No. 20. Click through for Cook's full fifty to find the four that are in JP.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation thought that Jackson Square needed something more inviting than a brick MBTA building wall for people to look at when coming out of Jackson Square station. The MBTA agreed and the NDC asked JP artist Alex Cook to design a mural on the 60 foot brick wall of the MBTA's Engineering and Maintenance of Way Facility on Centre and Lamartine Streets. After the NDC held a series of brainstorming meetings with Bromley Heath residents and other neighbors,Alex came up with a design. He and and his assistant prepared the wall Thursday and drew the cartoon Friday
On Saturday over 25 volunteers under Alex's watchful eye painted the mural and most of it was completed by days end. The Jamaica Plain News dropped by Saturday afternoon to watch the work/
The resolution of a community-dividing dispute in a San Francisco neighborhood has lessons for JP, one sociologist told the crowd at the most recent JP Forum. Beth Roy, a longtime mediator in the Bay Area, gave a talk titled, “Mediating Gentrification: How One Community Created Unity Out Of Divisiveness.”
Roy shared how she helped mediate an eight-year dispute in her own changing neighborhood of Bernal Heights. The San Francisco neighborhood is similar to JP, with an "urban village" feel, according to the San Francisco Gate. In 1980 the community branch library created vibrant murals on its exterior walls. And 30 years later, the adored branch library was being renovated.
#wallart #streetart #bostonusa #boston #jp #jamaicaplain #mural #rooster #colors #bright #igboston #igersboston A photo posted by murcia73 (@murcia73) on Jan 19, 2015 at 5:06pm PST
The Photo of the Day for Friday presents a twist: Since I didn't know where this mural was, I bet a lot of you don't either. Without clicking through to the photographer's Instagram page (which has the answer), make your guesses below in the comments section. I'll add the answer this weekend. Each weekday we post an image from around the neighborhood. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
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Boston Eliot Street Mural, December 2013. Credit: All rights reserved to fotosqrrl
Don't you love how the people on the sidewalk seem like they're part of this Eliot Street mural? Great street photography and composition by fotosqrrl, who shared this photo in the Jamaica Plain News Photo Pool on Flickr. Each weekday we post an image from around the neighborhood. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
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Schoolhouse rock. #muralsofjp #jamaicaplain #02130news
A photo posted by KA (@kellyalice17) on Nov 11, 2014 at 11:04am PST
Kelly Alice took this photo of a JFK School mural. Each weekday we post an image from around the neighborhood. If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews
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Each weekday we post a random image from around the neighborhood. This engaging detail from an Egleston Square mural comes courtesy of the Instagram feed from Egleston Square Main Street. [selfie]
If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews
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Each weekday we post a random image from around the neighborhood. Here's Felix De La Cruz' ode to the mural outside Purple Cactus. He says on his Instagram feed, "I love this. JP is the place to be." [selfie]
If you have a photo that screams (or even whispers) "Jamaica Plain," here are four ways to nominate it as our "Photo of the Day":
Email me at chris@jamaicaplainnews
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Put your photo in the Jamaica Plain News photo pool on Flickr
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An artist whose Hyde Square mural became a landmark has died at 85. Rafael "Sonny" Rivera García, died Friday in Puerto Rico, according to his son, Boricua Rivera. In 1984, the elder Rivera painted a mural on Perkins Street that honors the Taino culture of what is today Puerto Rico. The mural has since been restored twice and come to be a symbol of Jamaica Plain in general and Hyde-Jackson squares in particular. Sonny Rivera's murals have adorned public spaces in Miami; San Juan and Guanica, Puerto Rico; and New York City.
Each weekday we post a random image from around the neighborhood. This is Kelly Alice's view of the mural that honors the Taino people. The mural, which has been restored since it was originally painted by Rafael Rivera García, is on the back of the Whole Foods building. The Tainos were the original inhabitants of what is today Puerto Rico. Long believed to have been completely wiped out by Christopher Columbus and the European diseases he and his crews brought to the Caribbean, vestiges of the Tainos' culture survive.