The Freedom Wall, located at the corner of Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York, is a mural depicting twenty-eight civil rights leaders active anytime from the 19th to the 21st centuries, ranging from William Wells Brown (born 1815) to Alicia Garza (born 1981).[1] The project was commissioned by the Albright–Knox Art Gallery's Public Art Initiative in 2017,[2] along with a 30-minute film of the same name about the mural. In 2019, WNED-TV broadcast the film about the mural.[3][4]
Commissioned by Aaron Ott, the curator of the Albright–Knox Art Gallery's Public Art Initiative, the mural was initially intended to be Chuck Tingley alone, but following comments by the African-American community, African-American artists John Baker, Julia Bottoms and Edreys Wajed were also hired to work on the wall.[3] Each artist completed seven panels of the mural,[5] which took two months.[6]
The mural depicts twenty-eight civil rights leaders, chosen from 300 suggestions.[7] It is fifteen feet high and 300 feet long[6] and located at the corner of Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York.[1] The figures included are:[3][5][7]
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