Community Art Projects
ArtCorps Collaboration 2008-2016
Using art as a tool for social action in Central America and around the world. The collaborative mural project featured in this video took place in El Salvador in 2009
This is East Artistic Director
The National Endowment of the Arts placemaking grant celebrates and promoting East Somerville’s identity during a time of change for the neighborhood. The placemaking initiative includes 2 community murals, a mosaic project and video stories, and more.
Describe your image.
Describe your image.
Somerville Arts Council Mural at Artbeat
This summer (2014) I had the joy of collaborating with the Somerville Arts Council to design and direct the first of many murals to be mounted on the Muskrat Art Bus.
Throughout a community-wide day of art-making and celebrating, over 75 people contributed to making this piece. The mural now travels around Somerville and serves as the back drop to many workshops, and community events facilitated by local artists and educators.
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This is Where we Live Work and Create
Between 2013 and 2014 I facilitated a section of a 40-foot mural that runs along Mass Ave in Cambridge. This mural was done in collaboration with the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research and young artists from the Community Art Center of Cambridge.
Youth between the ages of 5 and 12 were asked to explore the colors and textures of things that they were proud of in their community.
The result was a texturized mural made of maleable concrete and brightly colored paint that shares the story of this community through the eyes of its' youth.
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Sharing Biodiversity and Culture Mosaic
This mosaic was a culminating project to celebrate a two-year long learning exchange between children in Acton, Massachusetts and Ilobasco, El Salvador. In both locations I worked with educators and students to facilitate an artistic process that would help make meaning of an educational exchange and cultural learning project supported by the Acton Discovery Museums and the Tin Marin Museo para los Niños of San Salvador.
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