West 13th Street Alliance Announces “A Rainbow is Stronger than COVID”

All New York City residents are invited to celebrate Pride Month and enter a Virtual Art Contest with a $300 cash prize for the winner. “We are asking New Yorkers to draw or paint something related to PRIDE and the impact of the Coronavirus on the LGBTQ community,” says West 13th Street co-founder, Angel Vladimir Oliveros. Contestants are asked to email a picture of their finished art piece as well as a 2-3 sentence artist statement about their piece by June 19 to: w13alliance@gmail.com. Project NYC will provide some art supplies. The Board will meet two days before Pride Day, on June 26, to select and announce a winner.

A COLORFUL FLASHBACK TO PRIDE 2019. The West 13th Alliance turned the tree beds on West 13th between 7th and Greenwich Avenues into a rainbow in June of last year to commemorate World Pride on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Artist and Alliance co-founder, Angel Vlady Oliveros filled the beds with colored mesh over wood frames to create the colors of the rainbow gay pride flag. Each was finished with a colored bow. Funding for the public art materials was provided by Citizens Committee for New York City.

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