Mending Walls

About Mending Walls

In May of 2020, the citizens of Richmond, Virginia took to the streets to protest racial inequality, police brutality and the monuments to confederate generals that line on our historical streets and city parks. As a result, African American artist and community activist, Hamilton Glass, chose to create a public art project that brought together artists from different cultural backgrounds to create murals that start conversation and heal the divides between us. That project is called Mending Walls. Host Hamilton Glass sits down with the artist pairings as they discuss their mural vision, their process and the hard conversations that they had throughout their collaboration.

Publisher

Hamilton Glass

Category

arts · arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Aug 2020

Latest episode

9 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jan 2026

   Trust Building/s: Empatía

   Hamilton talks with Artists Alfonso Pérez Acosta and Noah Scalin about their recent collaboration. Trust Building/s is a four-part mural series that will spread throughout the city. These murals will be co-created with the community to come alive with the gestures, stories, and faces of real people shaped by hands that don’t all look the same but move in rhythm toward a shared goal. Each mural centered around one of the foundational elements of trust: ReliabilityEmpathyHonestyConsistencyHones...

2. 

   8 Aug 2025

   Inspiring the Next Generation of Artists

   Hamilton talks with Ava, Tio and Bannessa, students in the College of Arts and Architecture who are members of the Mending Walls at Penn State student club. These students recently traveled to Richmond together to see the original Mending Walls murals, meet some of the artists that painted them, and find further inspiration for their Mending Walls experience on campus. Resources for this episode: Mending Walls Penn State -- find pictures of the murals the students created h...

3. 

   1 Aug 2025

   Mending Walls.. at Penn State

   Hamilton talks with Sarah and Adriana who are Art majors and designers of the second mural they completed along with other students from Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and inspired by the Mending Walls project. Includes: Pam Hervey, Producer/Director of Mending Walls: The Documentary and Mending Walls: The Podcast. Resources for this episode: Mending Walls Penn State -- find pictures of the murals the students created here.More information: Mending Walls RVA Mural Project...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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34

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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