Dear Mayor and Council. Thank you for your leadership in support of social equity and the role you played in working with the Arts Council to commission murals from Utah artists of color. I am so proud of our community and our values of equity and inclusion. I am grateful you all were willing to take a bold step and provide the space for expression by artists of color. Thank you for your support of the Park City Community Foundation as the convener as the social equity initiative. I think the responses to the mural illustrate we have a lot more work to do. I am saddened and disgusted that someone defaced one of the murals and I hope you will bring back the artist to repair the work. As a resident, I would love to participate in the repair process and show my solidarity.
Thank you to Park City Municipal leadership for commissioning the racial equity murals project on Main St. I'm saddened to hear that the Black Lives Matter mural painted by Aljay Fuimaono was defaced earlier this week. I want to express my support for Aljay and publicly state that his voice and artistic expression are welcome by me and many many others in our city and county. I hope that our city leaders and all of us as citizens of Park City / Summit County continue to be bold in our efforts to amplify voices of those who are under-represented as we work together to build a more inclusive community.
Our country, and therefor our local Park City community, is in the midst of a critical and pivotal moment in addressing racial and social injustice. The goal of the recent art installations on Main Street is to "celebrate diversity in the community, and create a public space to foster understanding and conversations about race and social equity." Park City is not isolated from issues of social and racial inequity. These murals were a great step forward in our community recognizing this reality and taking a stand in showing our City's values. I would like to strongly voice my support of this project and the City's participation in expressing a commitment to social justice and equity in our community. Voices of support often go unheard and as such, voices of opposition dominate the conversation. I feel it is important that the council hear directly that, for all of the voices of opposition that have been circulating in the last several days, there are is tremendous support for this project and the city's efforts. Thank you for standing up and showing the world that Park City stands in solidarity at this moment in time!
I would like to voice my support, in fact, elation, at the public mural project on Main Street completed this weekend. Being silent in the face of injustice in effect means siding with oppression, and it is wonderful to see our town speak our values in declaring, boldly, that Black lives matter, that we value our BIPOC communities, and that we commit to redressing the histories and present of inequity that they face.
Dear Mayor and Council. Thank you for your leadership in support of social equity and the role you played in working with the Arts Council to commission murals from Utah artists of color. I am so proud of our community and our values of equity and inclusion. I am grateful you all were willing to take a bold step and provide the space for expression by artists of color. Thank you for your support of the Park City Community Foundation as the convener as the social equity initiative. I think the responses to the mural illustrate we have a lot more work to do. I am saddened and disgusted that someone defaced one of the murals and I hope you will bring back the artist to repair the work. As a resident, I would love to participate in the repair process and show my solidarity.
Thank you to Park City Municipal leadership for commissioning the racial equity murals project on Main St. I'm saddened to hear that the Black Lives Matter mural painted by Aljay Fuimaono was defaced earlier this week. I want to express my support for Aljay and publicly state that his voice and artistic expression are welcome by me and many many others in our city and county. I hope that our city leaders and all of us as citizens of Park City / Summit County continue to be bold in our efforts to amplify voices of those who are under-represented as we work together to build a more inclusive community.
Our country, and therefor our local Park City community, is in the midst of a critical and pivotal moment in addressing racial and social injustice. The goal of the recent art installations on Main Street is to "celebrate diversity in the community, and create a public space to foster understanding and conversations about race and social equity." Park City is not isolated from issues of social and racial inequity. These murals were a great step forward in our community recognizing this reality and taking a stand in showing our City's values. I would like to strongly voice my support of this project and the City's participation in expressing a commitment to social justice and equity in our community. Voices of support often go unheard and as such, voices of opposition dominate the conversation. I feel it is important that the council hear directly that, for all of the voices of opposition that have been circulating in the last several days, there are is tremendous support for this project and the city's efforts. Thank you for standing up and showing the world that Park City stands in solidarity at this moment in time!
I would like to voice my support, in fact, elation, at the public mural project on Main Street completed this weekend. Being silent in the face of injustice in effect means siding with oppression, and it is wonderful to see our town speak our values in declaring, boldly, that Black lives matter, that we value our BIPOC communities, and that we commit to redressing the histories and present of inequity that they face.