Ghisallo Cycling Initiative
With the help of Ghisallo Cycling Initiative, we created a series of 17 mosaic art portraits of Black female and Chicana/Latina civil rights leaders from Austin and beyond whose impacts can still be seen today. Ghisallo Cycling led a fundraising effort in the summer of 2020 to commission the portraits, for which they matched up to a certain amount. Community members across Austin and beyond all pitched in to help fund this series, many of which are still publically displayed around Austin.
Ghisallo oversaw fundraising, budgeting, and operations, subject selection and contextualization in collaboration with Decipher City and GAVA. All money raised by both Ghisallo and the community went directly to the artists or covered the costs of materials, production, and installation.
Left to Right: Azie Taylor Morton by Lys Santa Maria, Wilhelmina Ruth Delco by Litzy Rea Valdéz, and Barbara Jordan by Lolita Rodriguez
About Ghisallo Cycling Ghisallo Cycling Initiative provides bicycle education and encouragement in Austin and San Antonio. Since 2011, they have provided in-depth after-school Bike Clubs, high volume safety clinics, and learn-to-ride programs for youth in Austin. They even began serving older adults (50+) and seniors (65+) starting in 2016 through the launch of the Golden Rollers trike program, expanded to San Antonio in 2018, and launched programs specifically designed for adults in 2019. Ghisallo Cycling Initiative provides direct services to the public as well as support to organizations through access to bicycles, capacity building, and deployment of educational components to increase access to and integrate biking into everyday life.
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