Saturday, October 17, 2020

New Jersey Artist Creates 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Chalk Mural as Part of the Arts Council of Princeton's Art & About Initiative

New Jersey - If you visit Princeton over the next few weeks, look out for a fantastic chalk mural celebrating Nickelodeon's beloved animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender!

Artist Rashad Davis At the Arts Council of Princeton’s Art & About chalk murals event on October 3. PHOTO: JASON NORTON

The Arts Council of Princeton held a free pop-up event called Chalk Murals on the streets of Princeton on October 3. It is one in a series of live interactive Art & About arts events taking place on weekend dates ending October 24.

At the murals event the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts was the central hub. 

Robeson, who died in 1976, was a Princeton native and Black man, famous as Broadway singer and actor. He was also a college football player at Rutgers inducted into the hall of fame, and later became a civil rights activist. Artist Andres Duque says Robeson is inspiring to him for his leadership and fight for civil rights, being a philanthropist and having the community at the center of everything he did. 

The Avatar: The Last Airbender mural, drawn by Rashad Davis, can be found in front of Princeton Garden Theater, and features Avatar Aang.

Davis is a published author and illustrator of children’s picture books. He says he strives to “Give children of color a safe place between the pages of his books.” He was inspired to do this after the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy who was shot by a white police officer in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014.  He feels these events are important since “We can connect through art.”

To find out more about the event, visit http://www.mcccvoice.org/chalk-murals/.

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