New Features Added to the Rescue Public Murals Web Site

Detail of the left wall of Homage to Seurat:
La Grand Jatte in Harlem (1986) by Eva Cockcroft
in New York City.

Check out the new features on the Rescue Public Murals Web site, www.RescuePublicMurals.org. Read about a recent assessment, review a list of endangered murals, and recommend a mural that might be in need in your neighborhood.

Of the 10 murals featured on the Web site, identified by the Rescue Public Murals Advisory Committee in 2005, some have received assessments, but others have already been destroyed. Together they provide a cross-section of the kinds of murals the project hopes to save. Local Rescue Public Mural Advisory Committees are meeting in cities around the country to nominate significant, endangered murals to Heritage Preservation for assessment. To recommend a mural in your community, click here.

Rescue Public Mural is a national project to bring public attention to U.S. murals, document their unique artistic and historic contributions, and secure the expertise and support to save them. Rescue Public Murals receives funding from the Getty Foundation, as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Booth Heritage Foundation, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

For more information on Rescue Public Murals, contact project director Kristen Overbeck Laise, Heritage Preservation, 1012 14th Street NW, Suite 1200, Washington DC 20005, 202-233-0800 or klaise@heritagepreservation.org.