Role: Web Design + Photography
(2022-2023)
Project Overview
The 49507 Project is a public arts initiative in Grand Rapids' 49507 zip code, a community shaped by redlining and decades of disinvestment. Rooted in reclamation, the project turned community listening sessions with residents and youth into 17 large-scale murals by Michigan artists of color, installed on buildings across the South Side, each one celebrating the Black and Brown lives and culture that make these neighborhoods what they are. (Link to 49507 Project)
Undesign the Redline is the project's digital home. QR codes at each mural connect visitors to an interactive 3D experience where the artwork sits side by side with the history that made it necessary: the original redlining maps and the language used to justify them. Redlining was designed, and it can be undesigned.
My work came in two parts. With CARNEVALE co.op, now Tech Collaborative, I helped design the bilingual website from scratch, making sure the story of the 49507 was accessible to the whole community it belongs to, in English and in Spanish. With The Diatribe, I created the visuals that captured the story of the project: our mural artists and their murals, and the community activation events that brought people together to celebrate them.
Artist Collaborations
Community Mural Activations
