Equity Mural Community Meeting #1
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Equity Mural Community Meeting #1
What do you hope people take away when viewing the mural?
- More empathy!
- Hope for a better future. More trust.
- I hope that after viewing the mural people know that they are part of a supportive
and inclusive community. I hope the mural conveys to them that they belong in our
community regardless of citizenship status. I also hope that everyone is able to
understand the mural regardless of the language they speak.
- Tight knit diverse community!
- I want to feel love, joy, wonder, acceptance, vibrancy of life and visibility to the
beauty of diversity
- Strength in diversity. We are recognizing original Ramaytush Ohlone land.
Acknowledge the various waves of immigrants over the years. Documenting history.
Making people included and informed. He made many murals
- I feel seen. I feel represented. Telling of history. Recognizing the sacri ces of our
ancestors. Celebrating diversity as a culture.
- Valued, welcome, seen and heard. The mural would be a destination to go and
re ect at and bring family and friends to take in.
- I hope the mural conveys: Redwood City values all people. Redwood City values
diversity. Redwood City values Equity. Redwood City is doing the work to build a
more equitable community. People in Redwood City come in all shapes and sizes. I
feel safe here in my own skin. My City cares about me and people di erent from me.
I feel proud to live here. I can connect with people across di erence here.
- For the community and visitors to see how accepting Redwood City is, Redwood
City is known for great festivals like Dia De los Muertos and the Salsa festival, we
celebrate together no matter where you come from.
- Not only accept but appreciate diversity. The Bay Area - north and south - is the way
it is BECAUSE of diversity. We are all equal to contribute ideas, feelings, thoughts,
and experiences especially through art, music, writing, and theater.
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- I hope that people get to embrace the diversity and equity of San Mateo County. And
that the variety of racial culture and gender identities in Redwood City is represented
and celebrated.
- Redwood City is a welcoming, inclusive community; a community that sees a rich
array of human resources and humanity is displayed as neighbor helps neighbor; a
place that anyone can feel at home.
- hope, discovery, appreciation, search, learn, cry, laugh, celebrate.
What does racial equity look like to you?
- Knowing our history, teaching critical race theory in classrooms, recognizing our own
internalized biases, calling each other in, decolonize our education, decolonize our
healing, decolonize our ideas of happiness/ success
- What stands out to you?
- Color
- 1619
- Vibrancy
- The beauty of all of us
together
- Success in collaboration!
- Education and re
- Equity doesn’t mean as
much if we don’t take action
- Justice has to be at the
center in order for anything
to be changed.
- Be the change. Be involved
no matter what color you
are.
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If you could directly tell the artists what is important to you, what would
you tell them?
- What’s important to me is “Social
Justice & Equity” ✊ ✊
- Frolic with, share with, accept and
care about all of us.
- Art is a link that all humans have
and understand regardless of
di erences
- My response to second question:
what’s important to me is the
realization that we are connected,
that we as the human race are a
team to protect our planet and for
our future generations, remember
that we are the powerful
descendants of our ancestors, here
to speak our truths and love one
another
- Bold, colorful, & happy. Provoking
positive thought and action.
- To the Artist; Paint this community
mural so my parents and grandkids comprehend this image and powerful message.
• Agreement from another participant
- What’s standing out to you?
• Make people ask questions. Love when art makes you re ect.
• Leon: There’s a tension between beauty and “make it a gut punch”.
- Those aren’t mutually exclusive. Even depiction of an ugly incident can be made
beautiful if it inspires hope for a better future.
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• Addressing hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of years of inequity. We are
addressing that concern and trying, through art, to say we will not stand for the
ctions that have guided our civilization through the centuries.
- To convey a celebration of the heroic earnestness to thrive as a part of a community.
If you were setting an altar to the gods/goddesses of racial equity, what
would you place on it?
- I would place a summer breeze that
warms their souls
- A spiral mandala
- Song by John Lennon; IMAGINE
- Food from around the world and chairs
for everyone.
• Participant says “Let’s hear it for
food and chairs!”
- What makes you excited about what
you see here?
• Hope can still rise in the midst of
anything. Beauty can come from
hardship.
• I like the sticky that says we are still
doing the work, because the work
continues every day
Small group activity: What came up for you in the collage activities?
What are the most important things you hope were captured tonight (so
we can tell the artist)?
Group 1
- Justice, equity, inclusion, history, diversity, variety, beauty and truth (not always that
pretty, do not have to be a big turn o ) are not mutually exclusive; it won’t alienate
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people as long as we are learning and growing together. Precita Eyes when they
brainstorm for a mural, they build a collage together, so the intent was similar. But
the method was not as e ective. Process felt very awkward, but recognize that
building a mural in the past was in fact cutting out paper photos from magazines.
- Liked the activities and we should focus on everything that was said.
- It’s hard to narrow everything down out of all that was o ered by the group. We are
still in the big picture. We need to unify these di erent ideas. How do we move on
from here?
- It’s amazing to set this up. For artists to get the community’s opinion is a big job and
to organize it like this is really good. If the artist comes up with an idea will the idea
be considered by the community? About the gut punch and the beauty: you could
address the “tension” by doing both. The mural location o ers a lot of space.
- Will the ideas be presented back to the public?
• Not known. But during the selection process, the top 3 artists may be presenting
their ideas of what they heard and saw. Responsibility on the artist to unify, but all
should feel free to reach out with their ideas [RW1].
- Some were grateful for the thought and ideas that put tonight together
- Are the artists required to submit concept art with their proposal?
• Yes, and they will receive a
Group 2
- What came up:
• Feedback on others’ contributions – hearts!
• Energy – collaborative
• Energy – coming from heart
• Seeing live what’s happening in everybody’s minds – growth
• Collaboration – hearts
- Most important things:
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• Unity – reconciliation with truth
• Reconciliation one of most key – lots to process/talk about
• (For me) no expectations – want to see it come together
• We all have in common more than we have di erent, public who
• showed up tonight demonstrated that
• People opening up & positive
• Connecting the larger community
Group 3
- We are all parts of one important whole.
- Communicate our passion and commitment on the subject; thank city council to
listen to our voices
- Great appreciation for all voices, seeing alignment and also di erent
perspectives and great to learn from my community
- As an artist, enjoyed it a lot and amazing to see participation on ideas/concepts of
equality, unity, justice
- Great to see all ideas represented by the group together; seeing the usefulness also
for kids passing by, families driving by
- Hope to elicit the same WOW response from her family as other amazing murals in
Redwood City
- As an artist, important to see a balance between the truth (reality) and what we want
to be (Vision)
Group 4
- What came up:
• Enjoyed collaboration;
• Feel very proud;
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• Enjoyed ideas and contribution of all;
• Enjoyed the diversity of perspective;
• Enjoyed the passion;
• It felt safe…
- Most important thing:
• Di cult issues can be brought up and worked out’
• There is variety of cultural and diverse backgrounds that can work together to
re ect our diversity and our racial equity;
• Beauty and honesty can be connected in art;
- What would you like to add about the future of this project:
• I would like to do this in person.
What word would you like to leave in the room?
- Proud
- Inspiring
- Love
- Gratitude
- Revolutionary change
- Optimism
- Supportive
- Solidarity
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