A new mural near 30th and Ridgeway in Little Village depicts the figures behind a pivotal moment in Chicago’s labor history: the Haymarket Affair. LatinoVoicesWTTW
“The way that we work at the Yollocalli street art studio is we want to teach the teens that street art is not just graffiti, but it has a lot of different expressions,” said Fresán.
Among the Yollocalli group was artist and Little Village native Nayehli Alvarez, who said she hopes having a mural celebrating labor history in a working-class neighborhood like Little Village will result in more awareness and understanding of the fight for labor rights. “When the topic was brought up, I was like, wait, hold on, I haven’t really thought about it that much,” said Alvarez. “So it was nice to be able to learn about it and then also incorporate it in street art.”
“A lot of times, especially when you come from neighborhoods like Little Village, [the perception is] it’s almost like it’s something you have to rise from. Here, especially with this mural, it’s something you can just take a stand in,” she continued. “It’s something that needs to be passed on, that there have been a lot of struggles for us to get what we have already,” said Fresán. “So giving it up for some sort of commodity might not be the best idea.”
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