The Brooklyn Paper celebrates the “Welcome to Bay Ridge” mural by Michael “Kaves” McCleer, with support from NYC Council Member Justin Brannan and the Brooklyn Nets. Here’s an excerpt. Full article.
The “Welcome to Bay Ridge” mural on 86th Street, near the corner of Gatling Place, memorializes some of the neighborhood’s most prominent figures, including Albert King, Chef Rawia of Tanoreen, Chuck Connors, John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney, Pee Wee Reese, and Lordz of Brooklyn, in a fresh and vibrant way. …
Community members, including Council Member Justin Brannan and former NBA player Albert King, who is featured in the graffiti, welcomed the mural with open arms on Wednesday. …
Brannan, the Brooklyn Nets, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and Services, and Thrive Collective, a project-based arts group, teamed up in support of the project and helped it come to fruition.
Other designers behind the mural included collaborators Donna McLeer and Bella Kozyreva, and contributing artists Adam McLeer, Pelumi Khadijat Ayeni, Andrea Amanda and Anthony Cozzolino.
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