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  • Peace & Ancestry

    Peace & Ancestry

    Artist: RH Doaz
    Location: 222 Livingston Ave. New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 US
    Completed: Jul 1, 2022
    Sponsoring Organizations: New Brunswick Tomorrow’s Esperanza Neighborhood Project, coLAB Arts, and Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple

    School children, religious congregants, and local residents all traverse this street mural painted underfoot at the intersection between Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple and Redshaw Elementary School. The project was the fruit of a cross-cultural engagement between local Latino youth from coLAB Arts and the Esperanza Neighborhood Project and Jewish youth from Anshe Emeth’s religious education program. The hamsa, the palm-shaped symbol of protection in Jewish and Middle Eastern cultures, serves as the background for natural motifs representative of the cultures that intersect here.