Meet URNY: Featured in JCMAP

The Jersey City public-art landscape is shaped not only by what we see on the street, but by how those works are documented and preserved. One of the clearest records of that history is the Jersey City Mural Arts Program (JCMAP), whose official Mural Map catalogs murals across the city and identifies the artists behind them.

Within that map, URNY appears as the listed artist for the 2016 mural Be Who You Are. This entry establishes a documented connection between the collective and Jersey City’s public mural program, situating URNY squarely within the city’s evolving visual conversation on its walls.

Because JCMAP functions as an official record, the listing for Be Who You Are does more than name an artwork: it confirms URNY’s participation in Jersey City’s organized mural initiatives at a specific moment in time, 2016. For audiences, historians, and curators, that timestamped presence helps anchor URNY in the broader story of the city’s public art.

Seen through this lens, URNY’s appearance on the Mural Map is a point of entry rather than a full portrait. It invites viewers exploring Jersey City’s streets—and its digital archives—to recognize the collective’s role in the city’s mural program and to consider how works like Be Who You Are contribute to the texture of local visual culture.

Source: Official listing for Be Who You Are on jcmap.org.