Show Your City Some Love

The City of Hartford commissioned this mural as part of the "Love Your Block" program. Lindaluz Carillo designed the mural and worked with youth from the organization Our Piece of the Pie to create it. Over the course of four days, ten students per day would help paint the piece.

Lindaluz Carillo: "That was actually commissioned by the city. It was, like, for the 'Love Your Block' project. A lot of back and forth on that as far as what they wanted because it was part of a campaign for anti-littering. Yeah, it was an interesting project to say the least. What was helpful, it was a four day project. I had the opportunity to work with OPP, which is an organization that works with youth, so I had at least like, ten kids per each day each session, so they would get a lot of the space filled. I also made the mural very simple just because of the time, and just budgeting and everything, and all that. But yeah, it was cool, just to get them involved, get the kids... You know, get to know them a little bit more. That's always my favorite part when it comes to working on pieces. It's not really - it is the execution and the over all design, you know? But at the same time it's like, you know, creating this, this memory, and building this like, idea where you can really be an artist, you know, and that can be all. If you want to do, it's what you can do. And if you really try at it - there's different forms of it, muraling is just one."

Frog Hollow Oral History Research Team, “Show your City Some Love,” Frog Hollow Oral History, accessed April 12, 2022, https://action-lab.org/frog-hollow-oral-history/items/show/47.