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Date: 9/28/2022
SPRINGFIELD – The 2022 Fresh Paint Festival featured the creation and installation of new murals in the city as well as the recreation of murals by the late Nelson Stevens, AfriCOBRA member, who directed the painting of over 30 Springfield murals in the 1970s.
The artists include Colectivo Morivivi, an all-women artistic collective from Puerto Rico and Justin Suarez from Rochester, NY, who installed a mural at Gerena Elementary School, 200 Birnie Ave., Springfield.
Pablo Kalaka, who is Chilean by birth and Venezuelan by upbringing, painted at State and Sherman Streets and at the South End Middle School, 36 Margaret St.
MuralesLian, originally from East Bridgewater, and now lives in Spain, painted at the New North Citizens Council Youth Center, 4 Birnie Ave.
Artists from the Community Mural Institute led by Greta McLain of GoodSpace Murals, recreated two historic murals painted in 1973 by Nelson Stevens at 1 Montrose St. and at Catharine and State Streets.
Seen here are the murals on Montrose Street, Catherine Street and Sherman Street.