{"id":263792,"date":"2026-06-11T22:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263792\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:02:46","slug":"mcdonald-park-mural-to-be-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/263792\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald Park Mural To Be Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Melnick, the Steward of MacDonald Park, and Deborah Camp, the muralist, will be having a grand mural unveiling ceremony in the circular plaza of MacDonald Park in Forest Hills on Saturday, June 20th from 12pm to 3 pm that will be followed by art workshop programming for families for the duration of a year. The unveiling ceremony will have live performances from The Garden Players, John Beltzer of Songs of Love Foundation, music from DJ Nett, snacks and refreshments provided by Northwell Health and Trader Joe\u2019s, speeches by representatives of our official sponsors The Frances &amp; Benjamin Benenson Foundation Inc., DMVStop, Ridgewood Savings Bank ,and the NYC Green Fund Grassroots Grant Program, balloon making and other fun celebration activities and photo ops for families to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in 95 years that a wall mural will be painted in MacDonald Park and Deborah\u2019s design was approved as part of the \u201cArt in the Parks\u201d program. The murals will beautify the space by transforming it from blank to whimsical wall murals that visually narrate a meaningful story with messages of optimism, hope, community unity, and nurturing our planet depicted in an inclusive way to celebrate everyone across all socioeconomic, generational ,and cultural backgrounds via silhouettes so that the viewer can identify with one of them and see themselves within the mural. The initiative of the mural is for it to serve the community as a free space for people to experience public art and art workshops. These pieces will provide a memorable experience of seeing a large local piece created by a local Queens resident that they can visit anytime to seek comfort and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202721 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Flyer-for-Forest-Hills-Planting-the-Seeds-of-Tomorrow-Mural.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1555\" height=\"2012\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Location-of-Six-Piece-Mural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202733 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Mural-Panel-3-Complete.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202737 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Mural-Panel-4-complete-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202741 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Mural-Panel-5-complete-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202745 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Mural-Panel-6-Complete-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202749 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Panel-1-complete.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1111\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202753 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MacDonald-Park-Panel-2-complete-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"926\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A grand mural unveiling ceremony in the circular plaza of MacDonald Park in Forest Hills will be held on Saturday, June 20th from 12pm to 3 pm that will be followed by art workshop programming for families for the duration of a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0MacDonald Park location where murals will be.<\/p>\n<p>The murals will beautify the space by transforming it from blank to whimsical wall murals that visually narrate a meaningful story with messages of optimism, hope, community unity, and nurturing our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Stephen Melnick, the Steward of MacDonald Park, and Deborah Camp, the muralist, will be having a grand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-263792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}