Lincoln Park Gallery Without Walls
The “Lincoln Park Gallery Without Walls” is a non-traditional art gallery that takes back desolate, forgotten about and underutilized outdoor spaces and turns them into permanent fluid and programmable public arts spaces. It is the mission and vision of the “Lincoln Park Gallery Without Walls” initiative to transform spaces, awaken the visual imagination, break barriers and create connections between humans.
The inaugural “Lincoln Park Gallery Without Walls” launched behind the historic New Ark Cathedral Church (known as La Vid Verdadera en La Catedral New Ark, Lincoln Park) and the Dryden Mansion, which was the primary home of John F. Dryden, the founder of Prudential Insurance Company and United States Senator from New Jersey.
The mural "Black Girls Dream" was created by visual artist, poet and arts educator Kween Moore.
WATCH THE CREATION OF “BLACK GIRLS DREAM”:
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One Property at a Time: A City Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying
NEWARK — Construction workers in the South Ward of Newark, one of New Jersey’s most distressed areas, are busy converting a long-abandoned bank into an apartment building and poets cafe.
A decrepit mansion in the Central Ward built by a Newark beer baron before the turn of the 20th century is being revamped as a “makerhood,” a first-of-its-kind co-working residential and retail space.
Siree Morris, a developer, recently finished erecting six three-bedroom apartments on a formerly vacant lot. Next up: condos made from shipping containers and an affordable-housing complex named for his slain brother, Michael, on the street where they grew up.
While the downtown corridors of Newark, a poor industrial city burdened by decades of disinvestment, have been on the rebound for years, much of the rest of the city had been largely left behind.
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