Plywood Project Co-Founder Eve Moros Ortega says “The Plywood Project is deeply honored to partner with Broadway Housing Communities, the Rio Galleries and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. This partnership reflects the projects belief that art can reveal essential truths with unique impact to inspire and galvanize. This beautiful and moving installation speaks to the history underlying the disproportionate impact of today’s crises on communities of color, while educating the public of the equally long history of resistance, struggle, and change.” Manon Slome, Co-Founder of No Longer Empty, the New York City nonprofit arts organization, says “I am thrilled that the Plywood Project has
found a new location, with Broadway Housing Communities’ Rio Galleries exhibiting at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling. The partnership, generously supported by the Malka Fund, highlights the support for artists of color, mentorship for youth, and the power of art to give a voice to the most vulnerable that is in the very DNA of the BHC and this project.”

The Plywood Project reimagines our current crises as an opportunity for innovative public-private collaborations between artists, businesses, cultural organizations, and government, placing art and creativity at the center of community dialogue – commissioning new artworks, and working with existing street artists to preserve work that commemorates the historic movement underway. The Plywood Project seeks to both document and preserve today’s burgeoning street art, as well as commission new work – whether on literal plywood or other surfaces. In doing so, the Plywood Project brings support to the communities most deeply impacted by today’s calamities, provides youth opportunities for creative mentorships, and offers the public art that can be safely experienced outdoors.