Last summer, when thousands took to the streets of Chicago to protest the murder of George Floyd, many businesses started hanging plywood over their windows and doors. The plywood blanketing ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As such, ARS will be responsible for licensing works in the Plywood Project's ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — From the outside, there is not much to the old brick warehouse in North Minneapolis that Leesa Kelly was standing at, but inside is a collection of plywood murals that the young ...

The morning in April before a Minneapolis jury found the former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, Leesa Kelly woke up from a nightmare. As she had done many times over the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A new campaign is working to save the plywood at boarded-up businesses throughout Minneapolis. Hundreds of businesses were damaged in the days after George Floyd's death on ...

Leesa Kelly has collected more than 700 plywood boards from protests and boarded buildings from the summer of 2020. They represent preservation of the demonstrations as well as the trauma of it all.

During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. Tanda Francis in her studio ...