Nelson Stevens turned Springfield’s Black neighborhoods into living art galleries; a new show takes us back in time
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 25, 2023
SPRINGFIELD — They brought scaffolds and paint, but the improvements this squad had in mind were new to Springfield’s Winchester Square.
As work on a bright and bold mural progressed, people from the neighborhood, now known as Mason Square, stopped by. A child named Marcus was a regular.
“We had a little show going on,” recalls Clyde Santana, one of the University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate students recruited by Nelson Stevens to create this mural, and more . . .
