The Office of Public Art—entity associated with the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and the City of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania—and the City of Asylum in Pittsburg, selected the project River of Words by the interdisciplinary art group formed by Venezuelans Carolina Arnal (graphic designer), Gisela Romero (visual artist) and Israel Centeno (writer) as the winner of its open call. The project will be created during the month of July in a public space located in the North Side of the city where the historic district known as the Mexican War Streets and the Alphabet City literary center are located. The space to be intervened will occupy approximately eight blocks. There the trio Arnal-Romero-Centeno, with the collaboration of the neighbors, will use images and words to connect homes, streets and gardens. The project consists of visualizing words, poems and images at an urban scale. The action has been scheduled to unfold in stages. The first phase entails a preliminary meeting between the artists and the community in which the latter will select words proposed by writer Israel Centeno. These words will acquire new signification by serving as communication threads between streets and houses. Designed by Carolina Arnal they will be installed in the porches and gardens across the neighborhood using acrylic glass and vinyl. The project also contemplates stablishing three important points across its route that will be populated with poems by Venezuelan poets José Antonio Ramos-Sucre, Eugenio Montejo and Rafael Cadenas. The third stage will involve the intervention of Gisela Romero who, assisted by Arnal, will draw lines and texts by Israel Centeno that will connect the words installed with images. The City of Asylum in Pittsburg is a community founded in 2004 by artists, writers and neighbors whose incentive is to encourage cultural exchange and literary expression and dissemination. It is a campus located in Sampsonia Way in the North Side of the city inhabited by exiled writers, artists and intellectuals that come from countries with repressive governments and no freedom of expression. Israel Centeno is an exile writer who has written 14 books among novels, short stories and poems. He lives in this community where he continues to develop his literary projects. On the other hand, Carolina Arnal and Gisela Romero live in Venezuela and traveled to Pittsburg to complete the project. Arnal is a Graphic Designer and Founder of ABV Taller de Diseño and graduated from the Instituto de Diseño Neumann. She specializes in corporate imaging and cultural publications. She has won numerous awards in Venezuela and abroad. She is Co-founder of a group of independent creators who favor democracy in Venezuela. Gisela Ramos is a visual artist that has also received important awards. She has focused her research on the integration of words and images, as her work stands out for the narrative dimension that she confers it. Ramos received a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, in New York, a certificate in Graphic Design from the Instituto Neumann in Caracas, and also studied literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.