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Mural Project for Your Community
A Slide Show Presentation
Created for the University of Florida Art Education Program by Sheri Majewski - Veronica Mariscal -
Barbara Ray
PUBLIC WORKS OF ART ENHANCE COMMUNITIES
Franz West 2008Central Park
Tony Tasset, 2010
Chicago
Philadelphia ArtWorks! Mural Project
Anish Kapoor, 2006
Rockefeller Center
John Fleming & Susan Zoccola, 2002Seattle Center
Silver Plaza FountainSilver Springs, MD
What Can Public Art Do for Your Community?
• Increase desirability of neighborhoods and cities• Fulfill community and social needs• Foster proactive partnerships• Facilitate community pride and connection to
neighbors• Promote professional respect for artists and art
work• Add meaning to shared social spaces• Give youth vision for a better tomorrow • Inspire the community with a common voice of
hope• Educate the public on cultural perspectives through
art
Mural Projects : Address Social Issues of the Community
While Revitalizing a Landmark Area with Art
The Maestrapeace on the Women's Building Mission District, San Francisco
Photo: Chris Carlsson
The main purpose and goal is to use a familiar public space in the
environment, to bring restoration to the community through mural art; using the legacies found in cultural
heritage as the basis to create a relevant work of art that celebrates
culture, diversity, and evokes community pride and social justice; while providing equal access to the
arts.
Exploring the Purpose of Murals:
Mural Project : Necessary Steps Develop Project Timeline Assess Costs and Draft Budget Identify Funding Sources /Make proposals Secure Necessary Permits Select & Contract Qualified Artist/Educator Develop and Approve Plans and Sketches Procure supplies Identify & Recruit Community Volunteers Identify & Recruit Youth: ie. Boys & Girls
Club
Public Art Mural Project as Service Learning for Youth
Encourage youth to participate in all aspects of the project toward developing art and life skills
Provide youth with a meaningful experience in creating a lasting work of art
Promote cross-generational mentoring
Promote cross-cultural collaboration
Mural: Art Education Curriculum Objectives
• Create awareness and appreciation for community and culture… Preservation of values
• Express opinions… choose medium, content
• Organize… recruit volunteers, assign tasks, schedule tasks and crews, plan for supplies, etc.
• Cooperate… listening skills, teamwork,surveying for ideas: interviews, record
data, report information, answer questions
• Sketch/Draw/Paint – use descriptive language; art vocabulary; practice with media
Mural: Art Education Curriculum Content
I. Project Intro & Background :Introduction of Mural Projects and Community
Mural Gather Artwork Examples Discuss themes, characters, setting, messages
seen in mural work Explain Project Plan and discuss schedule of activities
II. Cultural History Local Historical Museum field trips and
community guest speakers Discuss Questions to ask Guest Speakers,
Community, and ArtistsCultural theme-What is the main idea? Characters – Who, What, When, Where, Why? Setting – What area? cities? villages? famous
places? landscapes? What lesson learned about the community?
III. Project Organization & Cooperative Learning Create an Action Plan Mural teams / task assignment charts
IV. Mural Content SelectionBrainstorm, sketching, group observation &
reflection skills: photographs or other imagery, stories
Historical/ Cultural Research ideas Community, Student and Artist ideas
V. Application /Sketching of SelectionsFinalize sample sketches Students arrange their individual sketches into
the overall format.Final layout of mural design
VI. Mural Creation ProcessSurveying location, preparationOrganize people into task groupsGather and set up materialsPicture taking, Gridding, Projecting,
Drawing, PaintingCreate Community Flyers, Promotion for
Opening Reception
Mural: Art Education Curriculum Content
Mural Project :Final Exhibition Event
On-Site Event Showcase student works Officially present Mural to
community Invite media for public awareness
Mural Project Evaluation: Surveys to volunteers and
community
Mural Project Examplesand
Testimonialsfrom
Participants
“…The actual, physical reality of people assembling to make decisions about their neighborhood was a
galvanizing democratic experience...” ~~Anonymous
"Young people who are involved in making something beautiful today are less likely to turn to violence and destruction tomorrow" ~~Americans
for the Arts
“Each project showed a degree of empathy for a unique community and gave students an opportunity to use their art skills to deal with the world through
art.” ~~ J. Ulbricht
“Rise to the occasion…It is a testimony to the capacity of art to transform people and society.”
~~Lily Yeh
Ridge on the Rise, by Eric Okdeh © 2004Photo by Jack Ramsdale
“This story - telling mural - includes Cecil Moore, people at the wall of Girard college, Pearl theatre where jazz greats like John Coltrane performed. In the mural, the art deco façade of the long gone theatre contrasts with the forbidding ten foot stone wall that still encloses the grounds of Girard College, location of the landmark civil rights struggle.“
Ralph Maradiaga Mini-park(New York)
“The eight murals in this playground date from 1974 and
almost completely cover the three walls that surround the mid-block pocket park. One mural portrays the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, who forms the
backdrop for a pre-Colombian village scene, with people working,
fishing and playing music. A colorful mosaic sculpture of
Quetzalcoatl with mirrored eyes snakes through the play area,
inviting children to clamber all over it.”
forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=168739
http://www.fadingad.com/fadingadblog/?p=973
Dreams, by Phillip Adams. Martin Luther King mural. © 2007Photo by Jack Ramsdale
Not shown here is a poem by Langston Hughes, entitled DREAMS. “Hold fast to your dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams die Life is a barren field Frozen with snow “
Reaching for Your Star, by Donald Gensler,, Philadelphia, Pa. © 2003This mural was created with the help of ArtWORKS!
participants and students from nearby University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Jack Ramsdale
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artsresourcenetwork.net/public_art/types_of_public_art
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City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Donald Gensler, Phlilip Adams, Eric Okdeh
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Coutts, G. and Rusling, L. Design, Environment and Community Arts. Art Education, November 2002
Ramesy Art Project, Boston Massachusetts