Murals create opportunities to re-meet each other and promote community health in a meaningful, non-competitive process that is long overdue, judging by where we are today. We come together around things like sports, but on opposing teams, and we reflect that same paradigm outside that arena. We rarely have things that inspire cooperative efforts.
COMMUNITY-INSPIRED ONE-OF-A-KIND MURALS
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I have experience working with clients, community members, and municipal partners to plan, design, and create both indoor and outdoor murals. Stakeholder engagement is a critical stage in each and every project I participate in because without it, public art is just art shoved into public spaces. And art shoved into public spaces, though aesthetically pleasing in many cases, doesn’t provide the kind of healthy, non-competitive connection points between people. Community involvement during my murals provides the forum and the excuse for people to shed their cool and their caste to connect with one another through the art making process and to have that connection memorialized by the finished product. And everyone involved has the kind of co-equal ownership you can only appreciate when you see the smile on their face and hear each one of them say, “that’s MY mural.”
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Purple Martins, East 6th & Parade Street - Erie PA, 2021
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Photo by Sarah Howard
PlanPlanning beings with visiting the site, community engagement, and deciding how best to execute the experience. |
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CURRENT PROJECT(S)
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Life Northwest, Erie PA
Hubbard House, Ashtabula OH Blasco Public Library, Erie PA Booker T. Washington Center (Innovation Beehive), Erie PA UPMC Crisis Services, Erie PA |
UPMC Western Behavioral Health at Safe Harbor - Crisis Services
2560 West 12th Street Erie, PA 16506 April 15, 2023 - Ongoing (draft phase) undetermined sq, ft. |
