The Story of Immigrants’ Journeys Are Told at Gage Park Center – ryan

The two murals framing a corner of the pder immigration integration center tears in gage park run jaggedly over metal fencing that bends in and out. The tell a Story Common to Most Americans – of the Road Their Ancestors Travelled to Reach the United States.

The murals represent the paths to chicago from Mexico and South America.

On One Masonry, by Chicago Masonry Alma Dominguez, the Head of a Woman Rises from the Soil, Her Outstretched Hand Opening to Release Silhouetted butterflies that show the Full Color Further on a fiery trail. The Robin’S-Agg Blue Background Represents The Sky, with Lake Michigan A Deeper Blue Below It. The Line of Fire Bounces off the lake and shoots into the Sky.

Silhouettes of People Gaza at the lake, while gage park’s characteristic bungalows rise at intervals along the water with plants native to the midwest.

On another metal fence, at a 45-degree angle to the blue-sky mural, artist Mario’s design stretches out with a deep plum purple background. Dark Mountains Rise from the Ground with a Glowing Ridge Line, Representing The Path That Many Travel North From South America. Above it Winds a Quetzalcoatl, or Feathed Serpent, an Aztec God of the Morning and Evening Star.

The Mexican Pyramids Stand Along the Route, which ends at the chicago skyline. The Names of Countries, From Mexico to Peru to Venezuela, Appear Along the Quetzalcoatl’s Red and Green, Glowing Body.

The murals were unveiled last month at Pder, 3357 W. 55TH St. The Organization, which Opened in Pilsen in 1996, Helps Newly Arrived Latino Immigrants Gain the Skills and Support they Need to Success.

“Today’s MURAL REFLECTS NOT ONLY WHAT WE DO AT POPER, but WHO WE ARE PEOPLE, AS A COUNTRY AND AS COUNDRY OF IMMIGRANTS,” SAID PODER CEO DANIEL LOFTUS. “America’s Immigrant Story Used to UNITE US All, and Believe It Will Again.”

Poder moved to it new headquarters in 2023 after renovating a building that has had been vacant for more than 20 years.

At a time when immigrants are targeted by the federal government, the murals are particularly important, the two artists Said. Mena Said and Also is frustrated with City Alderpersons who backed a failed proposal in January to allow chicago to work with USMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS INFORCEMENT.

“We wanted to highlight that immigration pah that People take to the US for the American Dream,” Said Mena, who immigrated from Mexico and Now Lives in Gage Park.

He was glad to help beautify his own neighBorhod. “As an artist and mexican, we are here to controltites to our community.

For Dominguez, The Silhouettes in Her Masonry Represents the Immigrants Who Work, Attend School and Take Care of the Families here in Chicago.

“We can see a lady representing the community that has lived here, and adapted, and works and lives day in this wonderful City and Contributs to the Life of the City,” she Said.

“We are in dinner Times as a culture for immigrant community, and art can be a form of resistance.”