Artist at Work | Yasmin De Jesus
Yasmin De Jesus is an Afro-Latina muralist and artist from Newark, New Jersey, whose work emphasizes positive change and social impact. Yasmin’s works include the “Newark Voices” mural at Audible’s HQ, part of the Newark Artist Collaboration, the “Stronger Together” mural at a Community Center in Newark, in partnership with Redbull and the NJ Devils’ P.K. Subban and “Paradise in the City” in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum Experience at Newark’s Prudential Center. De Jesus has also completed commissions with the Girl Scouts of America (“Dream Big” mural) and Rutgers University (“Center of Hope” mural). Earlier, from 2010 to 2019, Yasmin created numerous murals around the City of Newark, working with Yendor Productions and other sponsors.
Yasmin’s Murals have become powerful voices, echoing the importance of diversity, activism, and education. They stand tall as symbols of unity, inspiring others to break free from the chains of poverty and violence. Each stroke tells a story, an invitation to dream big and persevere in the face of adversity.
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Yasmin grew up in one of Newark, NJ’s low-income Housing Projects and blossomed her art journey at the city’s renown Arts High School. She then attended Cooper Union’s Pre-Collegiate Program, where she studied Art and Design with the top art students in the Tri-State area. Shortly after, she was selected as an intern for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and awarded a scholarship to study art abroad in Provence, France for the summer of 2008. Yasmin was the recipient of the NAACP Regional Gold Place Award for Painting and Drawing, and the NAACP Nationals Silver Place for Drawing. She also received a collegiate scholarship from ‘Art in the Atrium’ and a Sculpture award from New Jersey City University (NJCU). In 2016, De Jesus graduated from Montclair State University with a BA in Arts.
About Stronger Together
Stronger Together aims to promote diversity in hockey and to pay homage to those hockey players who paved the way for players like the New Jersey Devils’ P.K. Subban to thrive in the NHL. The work references historic hockey players of color and nods to ethnic and linguistic cultures heavily represented in Newark.
Follow Yasmin De Jesus on Instagram @yadeje
SPECIAL THANKS
Colleen Gutwein, P.K. Subban, Al-Munir LLC, Rebecca Jampol, Project for Empty Space, Gallery Affero, Launch Pad Newark, Yendor Productions, Redbull, Audible, Newark Artist Collaboration, The Sharpe James Kenneth Gibson Recreation & Aquatic Center, The City of Newark, New Jersey
Video made possible, in part, by The City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund.
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