Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts: "Baltimore Mural Program: CityPaint2009

Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts have announced CityPaint 2009: Baltimore Mural Program. This initiative will decorate Baltimore City with numerous murals this year. As part of the Cleaner, Greener Baltimore program, the city is partnering with neighborhood groups, community organizations, artists and corporations for CityPaint 2009."

For a listing of murals created since 1987, click here.

Artist Opportunities
*Artists are needed on a rolling basis.
*No deadlines at the moment, please check back periodically for
call for entries.

Volunteer Opportunities
Whether you have experience with painting or not- volunteering is a wonderful opportunity to work with community and mural artists. Please include availabilities with application, actual hours are set up between artist and volunteer.

Volunteers are always needed, click here for application.

Baltimore Mural Program Map
For a complete map of murals, click here.

Mural Program Contacts:
Shawn James, Community Arts Coordinator

Thao Nguyen, Program Assistant

Sponsors:
Special thanks to the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods, Department of Housing & Community Development and Baltimore Development Corporation.

Connecticut Commission / Public Art Tour

The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCT) has a nice tour of images on its public art program website. Take the Public Art Tour HERE. "Connecticut was among the first states to enact legislation that included works of contemporary art with the construction or remodeling of state buildings."

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism - Arts Division
One Constitution Plaza
Second Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
860-256-2800

Save the dates / Speakers Series and Wall Ball

Mark your calendar for May 20 when Mural Arts,
Creatively Speaking - Speakers Series guest
will be social activist and writer Arlene Goldbard.

For more information, contact Jennifer McCreary, Special Events & Marketing Manager, at 215.685.0759 or jmccreary[at]muralarts[dot]org.

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Wall Ball 2009 - Tickets on Sale NOW!

THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2009, 6:00 - 9:30 P.M.
LOEWS PHILADELPHIA HOTEL
1200 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA

Mural Arts Program and honor Representative Dwight Evans, Chairman of the PA State House Appropriations Committee celebrate with an evening of cocktails, dining, music, a silent & live auction, & mural-making!

Funds raised through Wall Ball 2009 will contribute to the creation of over 100 new mural and public art projects, in partnership with community centers, schools, and neighborhood associations—and will help provide free after-school art education programs to nearly 2,000 young people throughout Philadelphia. Over the past 25 years, the Mural Arts Program has created nearly 3,000 murals, earning Philadelphia recognition as America's "City of Murals" and a leading model in neighborhood revitalization through public art.

For sponsorship information, please call the Public Engagement Office at 215.685.0759.

Order your tickets today!

City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
http://www.muralarts.org/

Visual Restoration

Exhibit Opening:
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 5:30 - 7:30 P.M.

COMMONWEALTH GALLERY
LINCOLN FINANCIAL MURAL ARTS CENTER AT THE THOMAS EAKINS HOUSE
1727-29 MT. VERNON STREET
Philadelphia, PA

Visual Restoration showcases the two murals, Restoration and From Behind the Mask, created as part of the Greenfield program under the leadership of the Mural Arts Program and lead muralist Eric Okdeh, using and documentary photographs by Howard Zehr and Harvey Finkle, audio interviews, poetry, painted canvases and small clay works created by the students through a partnership with The Clay Studio.

As a companion to the April 17th exhibition opening, Mural Arts is releasing the publication Visual Restoration by Phoebe Zinman, a teaching artist from the first year of the project. This book recounts the story of the Greenfield Restorative Justice Program and reveals its beginnings, aspirations, implementation and impact through the words, images, and thoughts of those who designed and participated in it. The book will be on sale that evening as well as on our website, www.muralarts.org.

Several mask-making workshops will be led by Katharine Clark Gray, including one at the Thomas Eakins House on Wednesday, April 29th from 6-8PM, which will be open to the public. The masks created during these workshops will be incorporated into the exhibition and can be collected at the close of the exhibition. For more information, please contact Robyn Buseman, the Mural Arts Restorative Justice Program Director at 215.685.0756 or robyn[dot]buseman[at]muralarts.org.


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