Janel Young is an artist from Pittsburgh who creates murals, abstract pieces, and landscape works that are easily identifiable for their bright colors, blending, and geometric inspiration. Her work "Be Open To . . . " embodies her motto of "inspire through creativity and play" by celebrating "love, justice, listening, the truth, growth, a power shift, Blackness in all its beautiful forms, culture, and equity."
While the closed jar in the background represents "a broken power system in America," the open jar in the foreground represents all the love, joy, and power that the Black community has to give to the world. "These words, actions, and understanding need to not only be released, but need to fill the nation and the world for us to move forward in the movements of equality, racial justice, Black acceptance and Black celebration," Young said.
