Public Art Initiative Showcases Social Issues Ahead of Super Bowl LIII (Map)

A public art initiative related to the Super Bowl is giving artist Yehimi A. Cambrón Álvarez a platform to share the stories of immigrants. Álvarez was born in México and is undocumented in America after being brought here as a child. 

“Being such a young artist, to be Mexican, to be undocumented, to be a woman, for me to be creating in such important, large, public spaces in Atlanta, is a huge, huge deal for me,” she said.

Cambrón Álvarez, 26, painted “Monuments: We Carry The Dreams” as part of WonderRoot and the Atlanta Super Bowl Host Committee’s neighborhood-spanning mural project, “Off the Wall: Atlanta’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Journey.”