In 2010, Creative Arts Workshops for Kids partnered with the Harlem River Park Task Force and NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and created six original works of banner art to grace 18 lampposts along Fifth Avenue, between 138th and 143rd streets, and along 135th Street, between Fifth and Madison avenues, highlighting the entrances to Harlem River Park. The banner design was led by teaching artist, Shannon Moran, and painted by ten teenagers as part of a collaboration between Creative Arts Workshop for Kids and the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center Teen Action Program.
The banners were created not only with the intent to make beautiful work, but to design images that would positively advertise the park and its devotion to Harlem, El Barrio/East Harlem, and its community representation. The designs themselves are a direct response to the aesthetics of the park as well as the results from a survey the community had completed on what they'd like to see depicted as a good representation of Harlem and El Barrio/East Harlem.