land-studio-cleveland

Overview

Love Lunes Over Buckeye is a mural installation located in Cleveland’s Buckeye neighborhood that combines poetry with West African Adinkra symbology. In 2015 and 2016, Buckeye-resident and spoken-word poet Damien Ware teamed up with graphic design firm Little Jacket and sign painting artist Alan Giberson to create a series of hand painted panels along the former Moreland Theatre and building adjacent to E119th Street and Buckeye Road.

Damien conducted a series of poetry workshops with John Adams High School students and community members in order to gather neighborhood-inspired stories and imagery in the form of “Lune” poetry, an American poetic form modeled after Haiku. The resulting poetry conveys a message of love, hope, and inspiration through neighborhood togetherness.


The Love Lunes Over Buckeye project not only strived to cultivate a culture of communal sharing, but encouraged reading and writing as a means of empowering the voice, thoughts and ideas of the community. This project emphasizes the importance of literacy, by encouraging all participants to tell their story through written and spoken word.

Mansa Bey

Meet the Artist

Mansa Bey

Mansa L Bey is a Moorish- American Poet and Mixed Media Folk Artist from Cleveland, Ohio. Centering the experience and expressions of identity and indigeneity- Bey's passion for poetry on the page, the oral tradition of griot style spoken word and vi...

Continue Reading

Map of Project
LAND Studio FORM

Share this page

Close

Photo Gallery

1 of 22