Pasqualina Azzarello

Published: May 16, 2017, 6:27 p.m.

b"Pasqualina Azzarello\\xa0is a painter, public muralist, educator, and community advocate. She currently serves as City Arts Coordinator at\\xa0Easthampton City Arts+\\xa0in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and she is also part-time faculty at\\xa0Parsons The New School\\xa0in New York City. (Plus,\\xa0she's the sister of Strong Towns' Growth Manager,\\xa0Max Azzarello.)\\nIn this interview with Rachel Quednau, Pasqualina discusses the experience of creating murals at New York City construction sites, on sound barrier walls in Tucson, AZ and every where in between, as well as the importance of involving the community in public art decisionmaking. She also talks about her new position as City Arts Coordinator in Easthampton, MA and what it's like to lead her town's public art initiatives as a government employee.\\nYou can read more about Pasqualina's initial New York City construction murals in the\\xa0New York Times\\xa0and read more about New York construction murals over the last decade in the\\xa0New Yorker.\\nVisit\\xa0Pasqualina Azzarello's website\\xa0to see more of her work."