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New East Williamsburg Mural Blends Data With Emotion

Local students mapped their daily forms of communication and their resulting feelings to create the “Moods & Modes” mural.

New East Williamsburg Mural Blends Data With Emotion

New East Williamsburg Mural Blends Data With Emotion

Local students mapped their daily forms of communication and their resulting feelings to create the “Moods & Modes” mural.

New East Williamsburg Mural Blends Data With Emotion

A mural of colorful geometric shapes brightens the corner of Grand Street and Humboldt Avenue. Painted on Unity Drugs’ red-brick wall, “Moods & Modes” is a data visualization of Williamsburg High School of Arts & Technology students’ and teachers’ daily modes of communication and the emotions that these communications elicited.

Math and data-driven artist Ellie Balk collaborated with the Williamsburg students to create the mural, in…

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