By Brian Goslow WORCESTER, MASS. (Sept. 2, 2017) -- As Apexer, who hails from San Francisco, was painting “Thank you Sever Street!” on one of the two walls he had just completed for the Pow! Wow! Worcester 2017 international mural festival at the Fruit-Sever Apartment complex, a woman walking through the parking lot noted, “My mother has lived here for 35 years and it’s never seen the attention it’s gotten from this.” On the other side of the building, Cartoes, from China, was helping a young girl fix the braids in her hair as her brother came over to talk. A few moments later, she was posing for a selfie with a man who told her that she had come to feel like family in the week she had been painting her mural of three women. Nine days earlier, Pow! Wow! Worcester had held its kick-off party at the nearby Elm Park Community School which would receive 15 murals by artists from around … [Read more...] about BREAKING DOWN SOCIETY’S WALLS: POW! WOW! WORCESTER 2017 BRINGS MURAL ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY