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COMMUNITY ART

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

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.”
Purple Martins, East 6th & Parade Street - Erie PA, 2021
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Photo by Sarah Howard

Plan

Planning beings with  visiting the site, community engagement,  and deciding how best to execute the experience. 
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Photo by Patrick Fisher http://www.patrickmfisher.com/

Design

Design involves translating the information gleaned from community engagement into a tangible representation of the community's vision and aspirations.
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Create

Creating  requires painting and a willingness to view the project as a people-centered connection point that builds relationships  through the creative process.

CURRENT PROJECT(S)

 Hubbard House
Underground Railroad Museum

1603 Walnut Blvd.  Ashtabula, Ohio 44004
April 15, 2023 - Ongoing (draft phase)
undetermined sq, ft.
 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.

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PAST PROJECTS

2024
2022
2020
2023
2021
2019
2014-2015

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​Phone: 814-506-7085
Murals By Antonio Howard, LLC
PO BOX 1012
Erie PA 16512

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  • Home
    • About
  • Art Practice
    • Community Art >
      • Survey - Community Choice
      • Survey - Design Elements
    • Studio Art
    • Literary Art
    • Workshops
  • Community Leadership
    • Public Speaking
  • Acknowledgements
  • Blog
  • Store
    • Books
    • Prints
    • Tumblers