Living Walls

Creates public murals with women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ artists in Atlanta and beyond.

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  • Living Walls2024in 2 numbers
  • 2024sixnew murals by women and non-binary artists
  • 2024100students painted the Belonging mural

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Ahead of our final community paint day, we want to clarify our intentions and acknowledge our positionality in the strugSep 17Ahead of our final community paint day, we want to clarify our intentions and acknowledge our positionality in the struggles this project touches on.As an organization working from the U.S. in collaboration with Addam Yekutieli, an Israeli artist, we are working with tensions that cannot be ignored. This project emerged from conversations around hyper-militarization in the U.S. as it is interconnected with the Israeli state’s methods of oppression within occupied Palestine, and how we navigate these realities with varying degrees of privilege. While the project in its nature presents messaging that is fragmented and up to interpretation, we want to make it abundantly clear that we are working from a stance that is pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist, anti-apartheid, and anti-genocide. We stand with Palestine and its people; we are not free until we are all free. 🇵🇸 project in collaboration with @thisislimbo photos from community paint days by @clairipop 💌
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[She/Her] Monica Campana, a native of Peru, moved to the US when she was 15 in 1998 but continued to feel like a visitor in her overlooked part of town well into adulthood. Her artistic skills and desire to find home led to street art - which introduced her to a different way to see the city she lived in while giving her a new sense of empowerment.

Soon after that, she used those artistic and organizational skills to create Living Walls, The City Speaks, a nonprofit organization that uses art to catalyze conversations about art as a tool for social change and operates at the intersection between art, social justice, and economic development.

[She/Her] Angela Bortone is a Dominican-Italian artist based in Atlanta. Born in the Dominican Republic, she spent nearly a decade abroad in Germany before moving to Atlanta in 2002. Bortone earned a BFA in studio art from Georgia State University in 2010. Specializing in large scale art production, with a particular interest in realism and portraiture, her work has primarily focused on murals and scenic painting. She first started working with Living Walls in 2019 as an artist assistant and site manager, and officially joined the team as a project manager in 2025.

Poncey-Highland, Atlanta, GA

Based in
Poncey-Highland, Atlanta
Founded
2013
EIN
45-4603128
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