Friday, November 2, 2007

Mural: L'Aperegina honey farm, Pescara, Italy 2007




Mural: "Once Upon Our Time" for the Heartland Alliance- International Refugee Center, 2006










“Once Upon Our Time” is a mobile mural created by myself and co-artist and Sasha Silveanu for and with the support of Heartland Human Care Services’ International Refugee Center. The mural depicts the power of storytelling through multicultural and mythological characters and landscapes. Through these painted scenes viewers are presented diverse methods of teaching, experiences of movement and change, and an overall celebration of the imagination. The people, animals, objects, and landscapes come from both real and imagined sources reminding viewers that they are simultaneously the products and the creators of their own realities. This mural reflects the cultural duality experienced by many refugee, asylee, and immigrant children and depicts the equal importance of formal and informal education.

Related curriculum and educational programming (including puppets) have also been incorporated to help explore characters and events depicted in the mural.

The mural was completed in January 2007.

Mural: "Turn the Tide" at the Jane Adams Hull House art center, 2005





"Turn the Tide" is a mobile mural made with four other artists instructed at the Jane Addams Hull House for Arts and Culture in Chicago. The mural sought to address issues of gentrification occurring in the north side neighborhood where the mural was created and hung. Through conversations with local members of the community the narrative was developed and events and individuals were incorporated. The outcome went beyond residential issues to explore the complexities and externalities of capitalism. The image encourages the community to continue building solidarity (like a wave) and grow organically and dynamically against the corporate mechanisms of monoculture.

Collage series: "Enough" 2004









This series of large scale collage pieces explored themes of consumerism and advertising in US culture, critiquing America's literal and figurative over-consumption of the World's resources.

Illustration Drawings: "War for Love" a book of poetry by Carlos Gonzalez 2006