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Defend, Grow, Nurture Phillips (Collaborative Mural)
Lead artists: Olivia Levins Holden, Nell Pierce, Camila Leiva, Magdalena Kaluza, Simone Rendon, Missy Whiteman, James Autio, Juliette Perine Myers, Mattie Weiss, Katrina Knutson, Samie Johnson and Chaka Mkali.
This 4000 sq foot mural was created based on 4 months of community engagement, gatherings, and individual interviews about the history, challenges, and resilience of the Phillips Neighborhood in Minneapolis.
Location: PPL Career Center, 1035 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: April-October 2019
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Project for Pride in Living.
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Chaka Mkali, Crystal Price, and Samie Johnson.
Vivienda Digna/Dignified Homes
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice.
Location: Eclipse Beauty Salon, 1410 E Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
Justicia/Justice
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice. This is one of the five small murals.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
Dignidad/Dignity
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice. This is one of the five small murals.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
Empatia, Empathy
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice. This is one of the five small murals.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
Union/Unity
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice. This is one of the five small murals.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
Lucha/Fight
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce, Clau Valentino, Magdalena Kaluza
Artist Cohort: Isain Perez, Ben Perez, Uriel Perez, Ana Cecilia, Doña Esther, Gael Bautista
Lead Artists led a cohort of Latinx youth and adults who reside in the housing cooperative Cielo Sin Limites to conduct community engagement, design and paint a large mural on Lake Street–along with five small murals on their five apartment buildings–celebrating their victory around housing justice. This is one of the five small murals.
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020-2021
Organizational Collaborators: Hope Community’s Power of Vision Mural Project, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Inquilinx Unidxs por Justicia/United Tenants for Justice, and Colectivo Cielo Sin Limites/Sky Without Limits Collective
Project Coordinators: Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, Crystal Price
We Are Brilliant Stars
Lead Artist: Nell Pierce
This mural was created with input from students and staff at Stonebridge World School.
Location: Stonebridge World School (entryway), Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2021
Park Ave.
Lead Artists: Leslie Barlow, Nell Pierce, Hibaaq Ibrahim, Magdalena Kaluza (as part of Creatives After Curfew)
This mural was designed based on engagement with people from the Park Ave. Church community.
Location: Park Ave. Church, Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2021
Plants and Shrooms for your Immunes
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce & Juliette Perine Myers (as part of Creatives After Curfew)
This was one of four murals painted by Creatives After Curfew and installed on garages and fences around South Minneapolis to educate the public about medicinal plants.
Location: 15th Ave. & 34th St., Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2020
Organizational Collaborators: Candida Gonzalez and the Creative Citymaking program, Creatives After Curfew
We Are Seeds
Lead Artist: Nell Pierce
Assistant Artist: Lissa Karpeh
This mural was created with input from students and staff at Partnership Academy.
Location: Partnership Academy, Richfield, MN
Date: 2020
Treehouse
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce
This mural was designed based on input from students at the Oregon Institute of Technology. The painting features students who modeled for the mural.
Location: Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR
Date: 2019
The Path Ahead (live solo mural)
Lead Artists: Nell Pierce
Location: This mural was painted “live” at an outdoor event, but was later installed at the Portland Arts and Technology High School, Portland ME.
Date: 2019
Solidarity (Live Mural with Poligraphix Collective)
Lead Artist: Aaron Johnson Ortiz
Assistant Artists: Nell Pierce, Olivia Levins Holden and others from the (former) Poligraphix Collective.
Location: This mural/banner was painted “live” during Art-a-Whirl at SEIU Local 26, Minneapolis, MN.
Date: 2018
Queer Love
Lead Artists: Olivia Levins Holden & Nell Pierce
This was painted “live” during the Soundset Music Festival.
Location: Soundset Music Festival, State Fair Grounds, St. Paul, MN
Date: 2018
Organizational Collaborators: Rhymesayers
Wings
Lead Artists: Olivia Levins Holden & Nell Pierce
This was painted “live” during an event at Public Functionary.
Location: Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2018
Wings
Lead Artists: Olivia Levins Holden & Nell Pierce
This was painted “live” during an event at Public Functionary.
Location: Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2018
Photo by Ryan Stopera
Haha Wakpa, Gichi-Ziibii, Mississippi Flyway
Lead Artist: Nell Pierce
Assistant Artists: Kim Gillespie and Bayou Bay
Lead Artist led a group of youth, along with two assistants, to research, design, and paint a mural about birds along the Mississippi River.
Location: 28th Ave. & 42st St., Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2017
Organizational Collaborators: Articulture, Audubon Society
Waves of Change/Oleadas de Cambio
Lead artist & Project Coordinator: Olivia Levins Holden
Assistant artists: Nell Pierce, Bayou Bay, Atzin Ketter, Misty Rowan
Youth and Community painters: Brad Sigal, Irina Barrera, Joanna Nunez, Anh Pham, Luke Longfellow, Mae Boda, Esmarie Cariaga, Lena Wilhelm.
This mural was created with community participation, representing part of Minnesota’s history of community organizing, connection, and creativity. Over 100 community volunteers participated in painting. It was supported by Olivia’s Forecast Public Art Emerging Artist project grant, 2015.
Location: 4200 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN
Date: 2015
Organizational Collaborators: Building residents and organizations, including Women Against Military Madness, MIRAC, Anti-War Committee.