Freedom Wall Documentary to Air on WNED-TV
With support from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), the large concrete wall surrounding the NFTA’s Cold Spring Bus Maintenance Depot has been transformed into portraits of 28 notable civil rights leaders from America’s past and present. This is The Freedom Wall.If you take a stroll by Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street in Buffalo, NY, you’ll find The Freedom Wall, a large concrete wall depicting portraits of 28 civil rights leaders in American history. The film, “The Freedom Wall”, that documents the work and its artists will air at 7:30 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 5 on WNED-TV.The work is about justice. It is about a long struggle. It is about those who have persevered and those who continue to strive toward equality. The artwork was painted over the course of summer 2017 by artists John Baker, Julia Bottoms, Chuck Tingley, and Edreys Wajed. This is its story.The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Public Art Initiative, in collaboration with the Michigan Street African-American Heritage Corridor and neighborhood stakeholders, envisioned the mural as a way to celebrate our nation’s historic and ongoing struggles for political and social equality, including the formative and lasting contributions of local leaders to this cause. The list of subjects was generated from multiple public meetings with community members that yielded hundreds of suggestions.
For more information on The Freedom Wall, visit www.albrightknox.org/community/ak-public-art/freedom-wall.Other airdates on WNED-TV for “The Freedom Wall”:10:30 pm, Friday, Feb. 85 pm, Saturday, Feb. 9 10 pm, Sunday, Feb. 24# # #
