![]() ![]() S., from 29th Street East Hooyo’s Kitchen, 2900 13th Ave. ![]() I would like to credit the artist(s), if someone could offer me a pointer. ![]() Taken as a whole, the mural powerfully encapsulates what the neighborhood experienced - and how it responded - in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. However, to fully appreciate the meaning of these scenes, one needs look back to the left, to the building face farther east, where there are much darker images of violence and rapaciousness - and of resistance. The banner for Hooyo’s Kitchen is appropriately positioned among scenes of people bringing hope, including by catering. Several buildings along 29th Street East have interesting murals, but I’ll limit myself to showing just one, from the southwest corner with 13th Avenue South. Once I reached 28th Street, I backtracked to 29th and turned west. North of the greenway, I passed some more broadly similar houses, and then a group of 21st-century townhouses in the northern quarter of the 2800 block. Midtown Greenway, west from Bloomington Avenue The duplex on the left in the photo was built as such in 1909, whereas the building on the right started in 1910 as a single-family dwelling before being extended and converted to a duplex in 1920, and now has been further subdivided into six units. But tendencies are not absolutes, and even before reaching the greenway, I encountered some examples of the substantial multi-story residences from the early 20th century that predominate through much of the neighborhood. The southernmost couple blocks of the neighborhood tend toward commercial and industrial (or formerly industrial) structures, as a result of the Lake Street retail corridor and the Milwaukee Road rail trench that now is the Midtown Greenway. ![]() Mural by Mentoring Peace Through Art MuralWorkers with Jimmy Longoria, 2015, rear of 1522 E. For more about this, see the Southern Hale installment. And so I noticed another mural in a quite different style, one that I recognized as belonging to Jimmy Longoria’s Mentoring Peace Through Art project. But I’ve learned a few things over the previous 54 neighborhoods, and one of them is the habit of swinging my head side to side as I walk, even looking back over my shoulder. Ordinarily, one would see it only when southbound. Heading north on Bloomington Avenue, it would have been easy enough to overlook the back side of the building, which faces north. Juntos Crecemos (Greta McLain and Semilla Center, 2013–2014), Bloomington Avenue at 1522 E. It even offers an appropriate epigraph for All of Minneapolis: “Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar” (traveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking), from a poem by Antonio Machado. I’m in awe of how it fits together not only in form but in color palette. The work can be appreciated whether one is up close, looking at an individual symbol or texture, or across the street, taking in the full composition, from the maize growing at the center to the migratory monarch flying south and the powerful eagle flying north. I gratefully acknowledge McLain’s permission to photograph the mural. The artist Greta McLain of GoodSpace Murals led its creation in 2013–2014 as a project of the Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts. Titled Juntos Crecemos (together we rise), it combines portions painted using the parachute-cloth technique, predominantly on the upper half of the wall, with portions covered in mosaic, predominantly on the lower half. I had paid attention to the east side of Bloomington Avenue when I walked the East Phillips neighborhood in 2017 now my focus was on the west side, starting with the remarkable mural on the corner building. ![]()
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