Announcing the New Albus Cavus Classroom Campaign

Albus Cavus Classroom Campaign.

Please Donate at www.albuscav.us.

Albus Cavus, a non-profit public art organization, is taking participatory public art from the outside to the inside. Albus Cavus wants to encourage hundreds of kids to become active and engaged residents. We are empowering young artists with the creative skills to improve their neighborhoods.

Your donations will buy art supplies, create scholarships, and support teachers. Albus Cavus Classroom will have a tremendous impact on children, students, and communities. Albus Cavus offers a unique learning experience, connecting with DC's young people who see the new murals going up in their neighborhoods and want to be a part of it.

Watch this interview with 14-year-old Dana Lopez who helped paint the new Sherman Avenue mural. We want to offer Dana the tools to create art and bring it to the world. Please support young artists like Dana by donating at www.albuscav.us

The student artists will learn and work on actual public art projects, murals and sculptures. The will get hands-on experience with innovative techniques and current approaches to public art process.

The Spring 2010 Classroom will be held in The Fridge, an artist space in South East DC, in walking distance from Eastern Market Metro Station.

The Albus Cavus Classroom Campaign will run into early 2010 and culminate with a fun fundraiser party in February. Check your email for more information this creative new classroom project and for the party.


Please Donate at www.albuscav.us

City Arts / Public Mural Dedication Ceremony

H Street, NE Mural 

Saturday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m.

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1010 H Street, NE

Washington, DC 

Meet-and-greet with the artists afterwards

@

SOVA, 1359 H Street, NE

with 20% of all food and drink purchases supporting City Arts. 

City Arts will hold a public mural dedication ceremony for its newly completed H Street, NE Mural on Saturday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m.  The dedication will take place at the site of the mural at 1010 H Street, NE.  It will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists at SOVA, 1359 H Street, NE, with 20% of all food and drink purchases supporting City Arts. 

http://cityartsdc.org/
City Arts creates vibrant public murals and mosaics in Washington, DC and beyond through a collaborative process with community members. G. Byron Peck, Founder/Artistic Director since 1997, City Arts' professional artists and student apprentices have created more than 25 high-profile artworks. The results of City Arts' long-term dedication to enlivening neighborhoods will be seen for decades.

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv: CHALK4PEACE: An Interview with John Aaron

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv: CHALK4PEACE: An Interview with John Aaron

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is always impressed by ambitious projects for street painting, and we are especially impressed by the mission of CHALK4PEACE. John Aaron, CEO of CHALK4PEACE, shares his thoughts on the growth of the movement of those dedicated to peace through sidewalk chalk in 2010…

Spray Paint Workshops in DC

Albus Cavus is taking advantage of the last warm fall days in Washington, DC and hoping to finish the new mural on Sherman Ave this week. Stop by on Saturday November 7, 2009 between 1pm and 5pm to see their progress, paint with them, meet the neighbors and have a nice relaxing afternoon. If you are interested you can also learn the basics of painting with spray paint. Wear your work clothes if you want to paint. The location is Sherman Ave and Barry Place NW in Washington DC.

No Artist Left Behind Workshop

Copyright and Contracts for Artists presented by WALA and WPA

October 24, 2009 2-4 pm

@

Arlington Arts Center

3220 Wilson Blvd

Arlington, VA 22201

Spray paint, billboards, art - SignOnSanDiego.com

Spray paint, billboards, art - SignOnSanDiego.com

Graffiti artists use billboards as their canvas in cross-border project
By Sandra Dibble Union-Tribune Staff Writer

TIJUANA — The street is both their studio and gallery. Their public is anyone who passes by — police cruisers with flashing lights, street vendors with bouquets of flowers, groups of uniformed schoolchildren

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MURAL OF NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS DEDICATED AS AN INSPIRATION TO HOMELESS MEN & WOMEN

The mural, “From Menelik I to Obama”, unfolds a very powerful Ethiopian journey chronicled from East Africa to America; through many triumphs and tragedies, slavery, the cotton fields, the civil rights movement and the historical victory of electing an African American President.  The mural is a visual journey of key civil rights leaders who have made a significant impact in African American history, portraying survival, spiritual strength and brings to life the fight for freedom and equality for all men. This mural correlates the bondage of GRM clients’ homelessness and drug addiction and the breakthrough of having their lives restored and their families reintegrated.


Gospel Rescue Ministries (GRM), in partnership with Howard University Division of Fine Arts hosted a public unveiling of the mural in their lobby on October 3, 2009 at 810 5th Street, NW in Washington, DC. The artist, Mr. Mekbib Gebertsadik is a young, talented and gifted artist and graduate student at Howard University.
 
About Gospel Rescue Ministries:
Gospel Rescue Ministries is a Christ-centered, faith-based, homeless/drug treatment program serving the Washington, DC community for over 103 years. Their vision at GRM is “to break the cycle of homelessness, addiction and poverty in our Nations' Capitol, through a wellness program that reaches the whole individual. GRM treats both men and women physically, mentally and spiritually.”

About Howard University Department of Fine Arts:
The Department of Fine Arts of Howard University is a professionally oriented body of artist/scholars within a historically African-American private university committed to the provision of visual, practical and performing arts education of exceptional quality to students of high artistic and academic potential, with particular emphasis on the provision of opportunities for individuals of African ancestry.