Street art as a social justice practice
Street art and public art installation has been a practice for social justice work for over a decade. Projects produced in collaboration with photographers in Afghanistans, with community in Colorado, or between multi—generational wildlife conservation activists installed globally. Projects installed secretly during the COVID lockdown to get the community through tough times. Projects to raise awareness around stalking, extinction, racism, and, culture.
Streets of Afghanistan
Streets of Afghanistan is a life-sized, art installation that highlights the beauty and soul of Afghanistan while challenging existing stereotypes of the war-torn country. A ground-breaking collaboration of Afghan and Western photographers through life-sized photography that was launched as a pop-up exhibition in public spaces around Afghanistan in 2012. A book documenting the project of the same name, Streets of Afghanistan, was published by Hatherleigh Press in 2013.
Black Lives Matter Mural
In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country. So did a series of road murals, claiming space, and engaging communities. The town of Frisco, Colorado engaged with an enormous road mural in front of Town Hall and the police headquarters as a collaboration with Colorado mural artists and local community members to engage in conversation around systemic racism in the mountain communities.
