Press Coverage

Out & About, Oct. 2020

Voices Amplified in Art, by Ken Mammarella

“Jonathan Whitney was asking some tough questions on May 31. That was a day after protests sparked by George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis had ended in rioting and looting in Wilmington.

“How can we help?” he asked. “How do we amplify the voices and deal with the damage?”

Whitney and Eliza Jarvis, who have years of experience in the arts and community engagement, decided to commission artists to paint over the plywood boards installed to cover damaged windows on downtown buildings.”

The News Journal, Nov. 2020

This is the Guerilla Team[…], by Ryan Cormier

“The morning after riots broke out in Wilmington following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, friends and business partners Jonathan Whitney and Eliza Jarvis came up with an idea as city business owners began the process of cleaning up.

They wanted to connect young artists with businesses boarding up their windows.

"How can we respond? How can we empower young artists in this moment, not so much as to heal, but to continue this energy into ways that change begins to happen?," Whitney says.”

6abc Philadelphia, Nov. 2020

A short feature from the evening news highlighting the BLM murals.