Second Wave Media published an article about a new art installation that was recently installed on a vacant building in the Edison Neighborhood. The installation, called
"Inside Out: We are Edison" brings attention to the great diversity of the neighborhood and the strides it has made to reconstruct its commercial core in recent years. The work is inspired by an artistic
initiative begun by a French street artist. This
link, included in the article, shows how different the commercial landscape looked around the year 2000, when a porn shop, adult boutique, and strip club were the main businesses.
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We Are Edison: Portraits of the people of Edison Neighborhood show community pride
By Mark Wedel | Second Wave Media
Thursday, August 03, 2017
The faces of Kalamazoo's Edison Neighborhood are speaking to their community. It’s a sunny summer noon on Portage Street. A man slowly drives by and shouts out to the people helping to paste up large prints of faces on the former Kalamazoo Color Lab building: "Souls that are testifying!" Project coordinator Anna Roeder and photographer Fran Dwight have gotten many reactions, all positive, to "Inside Out: We Are Edison."
Earlier, a man parked, walked over, and "started crying tears of joy," Roeder tells Dwight. "He doesn't even live in the neighborhood, but he said it just made him so proud to live in Kalamazoo." Dwight replies, "when we start to touch people outside the neighborhood... I think we really hit the mark."
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Image Credit: Mark Wedel | Second Wave Media
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