More than 200 portrait banners now line Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury. Their faces tell the story of Black female leaders in Boston.
“People understand and talk about Irish Boston, Italian Boston, with the Cabots, and the Lowells, and the Lodges but what about Black Boston?” said Ed Gaskin, Executive Director of Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, and the spearhead of the portrait project.
The art installation was originally supposed to have just six portraits before ballooning to 212. Originally, fundraisers didn’t understand the art installation itself, but then the Kraft Foundation jumped in to help fund the project.
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