This is Home: Artist Jaylin Stewart

First Thursday/Area Premiere
This is Home: Artist Jaylin Stewart
Directed by Nathaniel R.A. Spencer

Thursday, December 7, 6 pm  CINEMA+

5:30 pm Cash bar in the Speed Cinema lobby

Free

In West Louisville’s California neighborhood, artist Jaylin Stewart worked collaboratively with the Louisville Visual Art (LVA), a local art nonprofit, and dozens of community members to create a vibrant new mural on the outside of the local anchor California Community Center.

Stewart, a California neighborhood native, hired local artists as apprentices and conducted several community workshops, over a year-long span, to determine the content of the mural and even create some of the artwork itself collaboratively.

The project, supported by the Mural Arts Philadelphia’s Public Art & Civic Engagement (PACE) Initiative Grant, funded by The Mellon Foundation, aimed to bring art to an area with historically fewer public art investments,

The piece, located intentionally in a neighborhood where there have been fewer investments than other neighborhoods in public art, promotes representation and healing through the depiction of Black and Brown community members, their stories, and participation in the process.  This short documentary details the process leading up to the opening of the mural. 2023, U.S., DCP, 15 minutes. Program length with discussion 45 minutes.  Recommended for all ages.

Jaylin Stewart is the founder of a non-profit, an educator, a community role model recognized with awards and accolades, and a prolific artist. Her work ranges from painting, murals, mixed media, chalk, to installation and performance, through which she examines the effects of gun violence, drugs, wealth disparity, and capitalist greed.

Co-presented with Louisville Visual Art

CINEMA+ With a post-screening discussion with artist Jaylin Steward and Caray Gray, WLKY Morning Anchor.