tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50992511343955744102024-03-06T12:01:04.467-08:00 The Mid-America Mural ProjectDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-16358389382321660952019-05-26T09:07:00.002-07:002019-05-26T09:07:36.070-07:00New Waco Community Mural(In Waco, Texas, artist Chesley Smith (an assistant
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from the Waco Tribune<br />
May 25, 2019<br />
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Waco history goes on as thick as the
paint on the southwest wall of Diversified Product Development, 1001
Webster Ave., and that’s the point.The white wall facing South 11th Street is being turned into a 300-foot mural packed with images from the history of South Waco.</div>
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is baseball icon Babe Ruth, batting at Katy Park as a boy watches
through a fence; horse racing at Gurley Park; bales of the cotton that
fueled Waco’s economy; a farmer selling watermelons; a jet from the
James Connally Air Force Base, whose servicemen populated downtown on
weekend leave; the Cotton Palace; a locomotive engine; the Waco
Suspension Bridge; A.J. Moore High School; a Greyhound Lines bus; a Mrs.
Baird’s bakery; silos; Dr Pepper; Pure Milk Co; and, from the side
where it did the most damage, the 1953 Waco tornado and the city blocks
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What
is billed as the longest mural in Waco is taking color and form this
month, four years after Melissa Skrhak suggested the idea to her father,
Ray Fritel, owner of Diversified, a baseball’s throw away from where
the mural’s Katy Park once stood.</div>
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Lead
artists Chesley Smith, 74, and Ira Watkins, 78, estimate there is a
month or so of painting ahead before the wall is finished, depending on
the number of volunteers who show up to help out.</div>
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Texas Artist Collective’s Steve and Angie Veracruz are coordinating
painting sessions through the group’s Facebook page, with sessions
starting at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. May heat is a consideration for the
split shifts, and so is an afternoon sun that makes a white wall
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Fritel
said the project started when he was planning to repaint the wall, and
Melissa suggested a mural on part of the wall would be a fun idea. With
Cultural Arts of Waco President Doreen Ravenscroft, Melissa talked with
Kansas muralist Dave Loewenstein, who led a mural project for the East
Waco Library in 2013. Early
discussions imagined the Diversified mural as a similar way to
highlight South Waco history. When initial costs seemed too high,
Ravenscroft suggested using Waco artists Smith and the San
Francisco-based Watkins, who ended up designing the mural.</div>
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Over time, the project grew to cover the entire wall.</div>
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know how it is with Doreen,” Fritel said. “Things don’t get smaller.
They only get bigger, and that’s certainly a compliment. We went along
with Doreen and the artists when they said ‘Let’s do the whole wall.’” For Fritel, it’s a thank you of sorts for the city he and his family moved to in the 1980s.</div>
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“My wife and I feel it’s good to give something back to the community,” he said.</div>
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Fritel
and his company handled the wall cleaning and preparation — no small
task, Ravenscroft said — and funding arrived in grants from Creative
Waco and the Texas Commission on the Arts.</div>
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The
two artists bring a considerable amount of Waco history themselves as
well as several murals around town. Smith continues as a professional
artist after retiring from a career teaching art at Paul Quinn College,
Waco Independent School District and, for a brief while, the school at
the Texas State Prison for Women in Gatesville. He has had work
exhibited across the state and has sold paintings to buyers in Canada
and Europe. He has a one-man show planned for July at the Carleen Bright
Arboretum in Woodway.</div>
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stayed with it,” Smith said. “It’s challenging and one of those things
that doesn’t give you an immediate payback, but I’m still standing.”</div>
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Smith limits his mural
commissions to no more than two a year because of the time and work
involved. In 2005, he completed three “Color Us Proud” murals seen on
Elm Street. His “Black Pride” is on a side of Marilyn’s Gift Gallery,
with “Each One Reach One Teach One” and “Peace” nearby.</div>
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“It’s exciting to drive by and see your art and know it’s going to be there for a while,” he said.</div>
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While
art education shapes much of Smith’s work and career, Watkins largely
was self-taught, studying and imitating an acquaintance’s chalk drawings
as a boy, then proceeding to line drawing from newspaper comics. One
of 12 siblings growing up in Waco, he ran away from home as a teen,
staying with a sister in Dallas, then moving later to San Francisco,
where his folk style found buyers. For a decade, he worked for the state
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“When it flows, it’s all right. When it doesn’t, I wrassle with it, wrassle with it, wrassle with it,” he said. Like
Smith, Watkins has several murals in Waco. He painted fishing and
eating scenes on the exterior of the former Easy Fisherman Restaurant on
Taylor Street and did the painting of Martin Luther King Jr. in Martin
Luther King Jr. Park on a concrete pier that once supported an
interurban rail line. He drew on pictures from “The History of Waco” for some of the images in the mural. Others came from his boyhood experience.</div>
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sold watermelons off the back of a wagon for Mr. Gus, Gus Brinkley,” he
said. “I picked cotton when I was young. To me, it was an adventure.” Watkins
also climbed the cables of the Waco Suspension Bridge with a friend on a
dare and shined shoes of Connally Air Force Base servicemen at the
Greyhound bus station downtown. The
mural is divided into panels, with outlines marked for some and others
still blank. Watkins and Smith are doing much of the detail work so far,
with volunteers employed to fill in areas of solid color. It’s filling in, but it’s work to fill in a neighborhood’s history.</div>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-87364054401425311222018-04-10T20:01:00.002-07:002018-04-10T20:01:20.076-07:00East Waco Mural Inspires Library Renovaton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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August 24, 2016<br />
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When the <a href="http://www.waco-texas.com/cms-library/page.aspx?id=338" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">East Waco Library</a>
closed its doors for renovations in 2015, much of the community was
displeased with the inconvenience. Waco Library Director Essy Day
believes it will be well worth the wait once the renovations are done
this fall. “I believe in the libraries ability to transform and save lives,” Day
said. “I truly just want to give the community the library they
deserve.”<br />
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According to the Waco-McLennan County Website, the newly renovated <a href="https://www.facebook.com/East-Waco-Library-221047611262710/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">East Waco Library</a>
will feature a 40% increase in space with a new quiet study room, space
designated for teens, meeting room with increased seating, more
computers available for public use, and much more. <br />
“Libraries provide access to valuable information for people and what
I love about them is that they are open to anyone, regardless of age,
gender, or socioeconomic status. Anyone can walk off the street and use
the library,” Day said. “Once you graduate from college there’s no other
place you can go to have access to all this information. Where else can
you use a free computer all day with wifi? There’s no other place like
it. We’re truly the last of the great democratic spaces.”<br />
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When asked about the design of the new library, Essy Day mentioned
that the design was built around the large and colorful mural, which has
become iconic and well loved by the Waco community. <br />
“The community is just so invested in the mural. They wanted to work
around the mural during the renovations so they took a lot of color from
the mural and incorporated it into the new design,” Day said.<br />
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Dave Loewenstein, a professional muralist and mosaic artist, was the
lead artist of the mural project back in 2013. The library itself used
to be a grocery store, so the murals focus was on that transition. <br />
“The place itself went from being a place for food for the body to a
place being food for the mind,” Loewenstein said. “We really wanted to
use that as a theme in the project.” Day believes that the new renovations will result in people staying
longer at the library instead of just checking out books and leaving.<br />
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“We see that here at the central branch libraries, people come in
with their laptops and stay all day. Sometimes we joke with them, ‘Do
you have a job?’ but we really love that they want to spend their time
here. People just love that its air conditioned and quiet… well
sometimes quiet.” Day said.<br />
Essy also believes that the East Waco Library will be a great study
place for Baylor students, especially when finals roll around and the
school library is packed.<br />
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“Sometimes kids come in shocked to the Waco libraries and say, ‘We
didn’t know you had study rooms.’ We always think this is funny because
of course we do. We have quiet study rooms and awesome databases to use.
We also have a computer lab and nice printers to use,” Day said.<br />
Day wants Baylor students to know that they are more than welcome to come and visit.<br />
“We would love for Baylor students to come and use any of the four libraries in Waco,” Day said. Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-30954608136054027112016-07-11T07:49:00.001-07:002016-07-11T07:50:06.962-07:00Murals featured on the Renewal Project Check out the new <a href="http://www.therenewalproject.com/6-murals-that-show-the-pride-and-perseverance-of-americas-heartland/">Renewal Project website </a>that highlights all six murals from the Mid-America Mural Project. <br />
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the high art world and the hip gallery scene comes this heartening story
of unlikely partners in middle American working together to reexamine
their histories, celebrate what makes their towns unique, and imagine
their futures in the form of monumental community murals led by Lawrence
artist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dave Loewenstein</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Called to Walls</span>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-74719877220972035892014-06-20T15:58:00.001-07:002014-06-20T16:00:09.218-07:00East Waco mural and the U.S. Deptartment of Arts and CultureHere's a nice piece about the East Waco mural and its relationship to the new <a href="http://usdac.us/">U.S. Department of Arts and Culture</a> by Waco Tribune arts columnist David Smith.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Almost every evil in America has an organized foe,” proclaimed
Outlook Magazine in 1907. Articles in the issue covering child labor in
the South and ways to protect the virtue of young women attending that
year’s Jamestown Exposition testified to the fight. Alongside these, there was praise for an organization in Indiana
that was contending for the belief that beauty is an essential part of
life and that “art should not be for the few, any more than education or
freedom is for the few.”<br /><span class="paragraph-1"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="paragraph-0"><span class="paragraph-1"> </span></span>We live in an organizational society and formal
organization has been seen as the key to getting things done since the
heady days of the Progressive movement. In his insightful book “The
Search for Order, 1877-1920” about this organizational impulse, American
historian Robert Wiebe explained that reformers at the turn of the 20th
century “prized their organizations not merely as reflections of an
ideal but as sources of everyday strength.” This impulse is understandable and perhaps
timeless: Participants in any movement against mainstream inertia are
liable to feel the deck is stacked against them and draw strength from
any way to sense they’re not alone in their fight. Those who wish to
make the arts a greater part of civic life are no different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Earlier this spring, a nationwide coterie of
artists and activists formed a new organization provocatively called the
<a href="http://usdac.us/">U.S. Department of Arts and Culture</a>. They conceive of art largely in
terms of its ability to influence society in a particular direction.
Despite the governmental-sounding label, they describe themselves as a
“citizen-powered initiative to cultivate the public interest in art and
culture and catalyze art and culture in the public interest.” They emphasize that active participation in the
arts by the public as a means to greater civic engagement (a notion
borne out by a National Endowment for the Arts study several years ago).
Moreover, the ability of individuals to collaborate on a project — in
their framework, something artistic — is “a key element of any resilient
community.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kansas-based artist Dave Loewenstein, who came to
Waco last year to help create the East Waco mural on Elm Street, is one
of the organization’s first “cultural agents.” Their mission is to visit
cities and host “vibrant, arts-infused gatherings” that draw a diverse
cross-section of a community. They then discuss how the arts could
transform that community and determine ways of reaching such a point
together. We stayed in touch after his time here and last
week he explained to me that the USDAC also serves artists by helping
those who live and work away from traditional centers of the arts and
culture to feel more connected to other artists and larger reservoirs of
creative energy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When Loewenstein talks about cultivating greater
energy for the arts within a community, he isn’t simply referring to
whether “an art program or cultural festival is good entertainment and
benefits economic development.” These cultural agents want to create art
projects that “actively engage citizens in the shaping, telling and
sharing of their own unfolding stories.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">He says the mural he created here in Waco with
the help of scores of local volunteers hints at how effective this
enterprise can be, but at this stage it remains “a rare example.” There
remain “many neighborhoods across the country that lack access to these
kinds of opportunities,” he admits. The East Waco mural is indeed a striking visual
piece. It’s even more impressive when you know the story behind its
creation and how it reflects the ideals that made it possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>David A. Smith, a Baylor University senior lecturer in history and Waco Symphony Association board member, can be reached at <a href="http://davidasmith.net/">davidasmith.net</a>.</b></span></div>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-80887375459123671802014-06-11T08:11:00.003-07:002014-06-11T08:11:53.314-07:00The 25 Most Amazing Community Arts ProjectsThe Mid-America Mural Project made this <a href="http://www.socialworkdegreeguide.com/25-most-amazing-community-arts-projects/">impressive list</a> of projects.<br />
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Here's a quote from the introduction to their choices for the top 25 Community Arts Projects -<br />
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"For social workers, being involved in a community art project can be
among the most rewarding and dynamic experiences. Primarily focused on
engaging a community or a group of people, community arts projects
involve a variety of media and often function to facilitate a dialogue
within a group. Many of these projects are created and envisioned with
the help of professional artists. Some of the community arts projects
included in this list offer children and adults an opportunity to create
art and build self-esteem, some are a means to revitalize
disenfranchised communities, and some simply offer people a place to
express themselves through a visual means. The following community arts
projects were chosen for their ingenuity, their resourcefulness, and
their ability to fully engage and inspire their communities."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">click on the photo to see all 25 projects</td></tr>
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-86743630693739569212014-05-01T09:09:00.001-07:002014-05-01T09:09:55.222-07:00Video from Hastings, Nebraska mural dedication<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_sem7BLr64s" width="480"></iframe>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-71698945579990719452014-03-31T14:55:00.004-07:002014-03-31T17:45:55.034-07:00Apprentice Catherine Hart writes about her experience in Waco, Texas<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"In the Spring of 2013, I had the privilege of being selected to
apprentice with two of the most talented community based mural artists
working today. Lead artist, <a href="http://davidloewenstein.com/">Dave Loewenstein</a> and assistant artist, <a href="http://ashleyjanelaird.wordpress.com/">Ashley Laird</a>,
took me under their wings and brought me through a two month process
that would forever change the way I perceive community, the creative
process, and the course of my life as an artist."</span><br />
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Read the rest of Catherine's photo essay <a href="http://catherine-hart.com/blog/2014/3/29/my-life-changed-in-waco-tx">"My life changed in Waco, TX" here. </a><br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-46293365163821025762014-03-26T14:57:00.000-07:002014-03-26T14:57:10.693-07:00Waco apprentice completes new mural in North CarolinaThree cheers for Waco apprentice Catherine Hart who recently completed a collaborative mural with students at Bald Creek Elementary School in Burnsville, North Carolina. <a href="http://www.toeriverarts.org/arts-in-education/residency-programs/bald-creek-mural/">Read more about the project and see photos of the process here.</a><br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-69794963239923256822013-11-18T13:21:00.000-08:002013-11-18T13:21:57.124-08:00Hastings Mural Postcards are here!Get these beautiful 5" x 14" folding postcards of the Hastings, Nebraska mural for just $1 each. Email Dave with your order at <b>dloewenstein@hotmail.com</b><br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-60359538268628020342013-10-30T09:14:00.000-07:002013-10-30T19:26:40.273-07:00The completed Hastings, Nebraska mural!<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Working Together Toward a People's Art</span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">October 2013</span><br />
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<b>lead artist </b> - Dave Loewenstein<br />
<b>assistant </b> - Amber Hansen<br />
<b>apprentice</b> - Rebecca Harrison<br />
<b>project coordinator</b> - Kaleena Fong <br />
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With guidance and generous assistance from over three-hundred Hastings residents, especially Dave Stewart.<br />
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<b>Project Support from:</b><br />
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Mid-America Arts Alliance<br />
National Endowment for the Arts<br />
Nebraska Arts Council<br />
Hastings Community Arts Council<br />
Adams County CVB<br />
Community Redevelopment Authority<br />
Kitty M. Perkins Foundation<br />
Mary Lanning Healthcare<br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-10430442278944445392013-10-20T08:40:00.000-07:002014-02-02T14:54:07.588-08:00Hastings Mural Project Loony-Toons?!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 40 page book includes all of Dave's hilarious drawings that poke fun at the artists, the mural process and other Hastings' characters. The book also reproduces Dave's heartwarming speech at the mural dedication and a short essay by lead artist Dave Loewenstein. Click on the image below to preview the book and order copies. <br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-26829640744441771452013-10-15T08:23:00.000-07:002013-10-15T11:48:21.747-07:00Community Mural Dedicated in Hastingsfrom the <a href="http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/community-mural-dedicated-in-hastings/article_8b15bb92-347f-11e3-ab42-0019bb2963f4.html">Grand Island Independent</a><br />
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HASTINGS — More than 100 people celebrated Sunday afternoon as a new mural, “Working Together Toward a People’s Art,” was dedicated in Hastings. The more than 200-feet-long, 12-feet high, vibrantly-colored painting graces the east side of the Depot Plaza building owned by Greg Spady. It faces Eastside Boulevard and runs parallel to the Hastings hike and bike trail making, it accessible to numerous populations. </div>
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“This is our mural,” said Kaleena Fong, the executive director of the Hastings Convention and Visitors Bureau and president of the Hastings Arts Council. “It was created by us and for us.” Fong wrote and submitted a $50,000 grant application to the Mid-America Arts Alliance, which selected Hastings as the sixth and final community for its Community Mural Project serving Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. <br />
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Lead artist Dave Loewenstein of Lawrence, Kan., said the mural’s location is superior for reaching into neighborhoods, a commercial corridor and the hike and bike trail. It’s another example of the “creative reinvention” that is alive and well in Hastings through the reuse of downtown buildings, the restored preservation of the Prairie Loft and now the story-telling splashes of color that are the new mural, he said. It is community art available to all walks of life to behold and enjoy. </div>
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The mural depicts the collaborative work of a mural being created, Loewenstein said. It shows ideas being tossed about, sketches being made, community icons illustrated and the community’s past and future being celebrated. Hastings friends and neighbors are depicted in the mural. One such depiction is of local artisan Dave Stewart, who asked the dedication audience Sunday if they wanted to sell the mural. He had been wondering what it might be worth and said he was approached by an anonymous buyer who wrote out a $500,000 check, which he waved in front of the crowd. Considering Hastings’ 25,107 population, plus the three muralists who worked on the project, dividing a half million dollars between them would mean $19.91 per person, Stewart said. He asked how many in attendance wanted their share of $19.91. No one raised a hand — so Stewart promptly tore up the check. </div>
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Rebecca Harrison of Omaha, who served as the apprentice artist, said working on the project was “inspiring.” The same method in coming up with the mural ideas can serve Hastings on other future projects. “Let this mural be the sparks of your fire whenever your spirits are down, your dreams have been dampened,” she said. “Look back at this mural as a scrapbook and as a guidebook for what can happen when people of this town come together and work toward a common goal.” </div>
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Amber Hansen, the assistant artist, praised the Hastings community for welcoming the artists and making them feel at home during their three-month stay. Audience members were invited to write their dreams for Hastings on electric-lit luminaires that were placed at the base of the mural Sunday night. <br />
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Sandra Barrera, owner of TaTa and Tutto’s Colombian and Spanish restaurant across the street from the mural, said her dream is for the Hastings community to continue to work together in unity as it did on the mural. Design team member Karla Kral of Juniata, an artist herself, said being a part of the weekly planning and painting meetings was worth the effort. “It’s just breathtaking,” she said as she observed the mural. Loewenstein said final details of the mural will be completed in about a week.</div>
Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-90818494154473452352013-10-10T08:22:00.002-07:002013-10-10T08:27:53.567-07:00Mural Dedication<div style="text-align: center;">
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-65510807469898022772013-10-08T07:54:00.002-07:002013-10-08T19:10:29.610-07:00Time-lapse video of painting the Hastings muralThanks to Assistant Muralist Amber Hansen we have this wonderful time-lapse of the first few weeks of painting the Hastings mural. Click on the image below.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-91738124499625872032013-09-26T19:18:00.001-07:002013-09-27T08:07:16.161-07:00Mural dialogue appears in the Hastings Tribune People have begun to notice the mural taking shape over on East Side Boulevard. Community painting days brought nearly 250 volunteers out to begin filling in our block-long canvas. Drivers slow down and stop to try to make out the images. Merchants and shoppers on Second Street ask us how it's going and give their two cents about the design. The media has taken notice too. Articles and reports in local papers and tv news programs have highlighted the project focusing mainly on the buoyant mood surrounding the collaborative painting. Less expected was the wonderfully positive editorial that ran in the Hastings Tribune last week.<br />
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It seems the editorial has sparked a dialogue about the importance of the mural and whether the city should focus its efforts elsewhere. In the days following two letters to the editor appeared. Here is the first.<br />
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And then just a couple days later, this appeared as a rebuttal.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Letter to the editor in the September 24th Hastings Tribune.</td></tr>
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A debate about the importance of community-based art in the local newspaper. An honest discussion among residents about the relative value of art versus other amenities in their community. Who would have seen this coming? Whichever side you're on, this is good news. When we start talking to each other (even if it begins in the letters column of the paper) about art and its role in our lives we are making progress. Thanks to the Tribune and the letter writers for beginning the discussion.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-77188854501142486992013-09-25T07:58:00.000-07:002013-11-05T14:00:31.056-08:00The Hastings mural design We are well into painting our mural in Hastings. In fact the dedication will be this Sunday, October 13th at 4pm. Stop by if you're in the area.<br />
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mural within a mural or a meta-mural, it was a way for us to honor and recognize the many people who
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In the Hastings design we
follow the process from wall prep to research to design to transfer and
finally community painting. Along the way, many of those who have helped us
appear. Below is a description of the design from left to right. It is illustrated with the line drawing we used to project the design onto the wall. <br />
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The mural begins with two volunteers preparing the wall. One is priming, the other measuring. A shadow of bike rider on the bike path is cast onto the wall from behind them. To their right, giant figures wade into a pile of possibilities comprising Hastings culture and history, that, when sorted out and edited down, will become elements of the mural. The things that these design team members touch / select go from monochrome to full-color indicating their preference.<br />
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mustachioed local celebrity (actually the main figure of a mural in the Kensington) the mural team delves into the history and culture of Hastings
sharing their discoveries with each other at the Hastings Museum. On their research table, a collection of seemingly unrelated items interact, including the statue of a Pawnee man, a polar bear, Kool-Aid stand, rattlesnake, Prairie Loft Barn, and Sandhill cranes.<br />
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Switching over to a scene in front of the yet to be painted wall, young mural designers begin by making drawings on the sidewalk. Two of them invoke fantasies of flight and hopes guided by dandelion seeds, while another contemplates the cycle of water from rain to farm to aquifer.<br />
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The design for this mural in a mural begins to take shape symbolized by a Hastings brick layer putting the first pieces together. He is joined by design team members who, holding up the unfurling image, share their creation with us.Their creation includes a stylized version of Fisher Fountain surrounded by symbols of local agriculture and architecture. Fireworks light up the sky as the mural design is projected onto the wall.<br />
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Before the illuminated wall, neighbors join the fun playing with shadow puppets in front of a design proposal by Dave Stewart. The final section of the mural, we see Hastings' folks young and old participating in community painting weekend. Cast across the figures of the painters and onto the wall in front of them, the shadow of an old steam locomotive passes silently into history.<br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-4483755435023544522013-09-18T12:43:00.000-07:002013-09-18T12:45:08.022-07:00Article about Hastings Community Painting WeekendCheck out <a href="http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/hastings-residents-brush-up-on-art-skills-for-mural/article_89eac36e-1e79-11e3-97c9-0019bb2963f4.html">this article</a> about the Hastings Community Mural Project.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-48266948983596146212013-09-07T09:29:00.000-07:002013-09-07T20:40:31.292-07:00Getting to know Hastings <style>
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</style>Like many towns on the Plains, Hastings traces its development (after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee_people">Pawnee </a>were forced to move to Oklahoma) to the railroad. But unlike some towns who's rails haven't been used in decades and depots that haven’t seen a traveler since soldiers returned from WWII, trains both freight and passenger continue to stop here regularly. It’s a crossroads - of train lines, of trails, of flyways for migrant
birds, and of paths for migrant workers following the rhythms of
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Corn is king of the economy and ingrained into the culture. We tend to
think of it as fuel for livestock and automobiles and a symbol of the
Nebraska football team, but corn is a staple and a revered symbol for
the Pawnee as well. Just the other day outside of Kearney, we saw a
small stand of Pawnee Eagle Corn, once thought to be lost and extinct,
restored and growing vigorously after a few protected seeds were found
by the tribe in Oklahoma.<br />
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Today, Hastings is in the midst of a modest revival. After years of struggling with a changing economy, development plans that took businesses out of downtown and slow population growth, residents and city leaders are looking back to the heart of their community for inspiration. A city that was beset with ground water pollution problems in the 1980’s, Hastings was named “America’s Greenest City” in 2007 by Yahoo! The progress that has resulted, which as one of our design team members reminded us is not the same as growth, has come largely from creative reuse and reimagining of what was already here - including former residents who have begun to move back after realizing what they missed.<br />
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One example is on the grounds of the old State Hospital, known as the Regional Center, where <a href="http://www.prairieloft.org/Prairie_Loft/Prairie_Loft_Home.html">Prairie Loft </a>is reintroducing visitors to agriculture appreciation, outdoor education, cultural traditions, and the wise use of natural resources. Also, the area that once comprised the massive Navy Ammunition Depot just east of downtown has been repurposed as many things including Central Community College and the Good Samaritan Retirement Village. And many of downtown’s buildings are being restored to new uses including <a href="http://thelarkhastings.wordpress.com/">The Lark</a>, an art and performance space that is scheduled to open in December.<br />
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But the best story of reinvention I’ve heard here comes from one of our own design team members, Dave Stewart. He is a living example of creative reimagining of one's own life and vocation. A custodian for the Hastings College art department Dave, at age forty-nine, was inspired to take an art class and then another and another. That was twenty-five years ago. Today, Dave, who I'll write more about later, is one of the region's most important and highly esteemed working artists.<br />
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A big question for the design team is - What else can be reimagined? What cultural traditions and forgotten histories can be restored? Who's voices need to be amplified? And how? Our design team was quick to realize that the mural itself will be a reimagining of the wall and the creative reuse of a place that was once a rail line and is now the Pioneer Spirit bikeway.<br />
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The process of designing and creating the mural are tangible examples of the too often forgotten role citizens play in shaping the place they live. We together through this process are reclaiming how the community including its history, current challenges and future aspirations is portrayed and understood. What was for years the unadorned back side of a strip mall, will soon be a collective vision of Hastings ongoing renaissance.<br />
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And this may be the most important part of what we have been doing in Tonkawa, Newton, Joplin, Arkadelphia, Waco and now Hastings - modeling a process of community engagement that takes the form of a collaborative public mural. If we do it right, our artwork will be evidence of our commitment to each other, our conversations, research and new perspectives. Hopefully it will endure as a touchstone, reminding viewers of what is possible when we come together in a spirit of respect and affection to first think and then act on our shared interests. <br />
<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-34652032019078054262013-08-22T21:46:00.003-07:002013-10-13T10:59:53.154-07:00Public Art in Hastings, NEAs we begin the design process here in Hastings, one of our first research adventures was to go on a tour of existing public art in and around downtown. Here are a few of our finds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"A Narrow Escape" by David L. Biehl at the Hastings Museum.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hau Kola" by Herb Mignery at the Hastings Museum</td></tr>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-72319843256087921752013-08-16T09:15:00.000-07:002013-08-16T11:05:16.986-07:00The Hastings, Nebraska Mural Team<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While in Hastings, I'm joined by a fantastic mural team.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Amber is a veteran of the Mural Project having been lead assistant in Tonkawa, OK, (2010) and Joplin, MO, (2011). She is also, along with her partner Nicholas Ward, in the final stages of editing the documentary film <a href="http://vimeo.com/34300352">"Called to Walls" </a>which tells the story Mid-America Mural Project. Amber holds a MFA in drawing and painting
from the University of Kansas and a BFA in painting and drawing from the
University of South Dakota. From 2010 - 2012, she held the position of
artist in residence at the University of Kansas. Amber is actively
exhibiting in the mediums of film, drawing, musical
performance, and has been the lead artist in many public murals located
throughout the Midwest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rebecca<b> </b>is an Omaha muralist who has been working with <a href="http://a-midsummers-mural.blogspot.com/"><i>A Midsummer's Mural</i></a><a href="http://www.amidsummersmural.com/index.php"> </a>for
seven years. With this team of artists, she has worked on around one hundred projects in Omaha, ranging from residential murals to 250ft long
public murals. She attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha where
she was president of the Organization for the Advancement of the Arts
and graduated with a BA in Art History in 2013. She has been active in
the Omaha arts community from a young age, including being a JAMbassador
at the Joslyn Art Museum and interning at the Bemis Center for
Contemporary Arts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kaleena is the Executive Director of the Adams County <a href="http://www.visithastingsnebraska.com/content/view/38/42/">Convention and Visitors Bureau</a> and President of the Hastings Community Arts Council.</span></span>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-17799574448727180672013-08-05T20:41:00.002-07:002013-08-05T20:42:35.156-07:00Nebraska mural site chosen!The final site for the first round of the Mid-America Mural Project has been chosen...<br />
<a href="http://www.maaa.org/siteresources/data/files/press%20releases/hastingsmuralproject.pdf">Hastings, Nebraska is the city</a> and the photo below shows where the mural will be painted - the east wall of Depot Plaza at 408 North Minnesota, facing Eastside Boulevard and adjacent to Pioneer Spirit Trail. An excellent location.<br />
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We are also very excited to announce that Rebecca Harrison of Omaha has been chosen as the apprentice for the Hastings project. More on Rebecca's impressive credentials soon. The Hastings project will begin on August 13th and conclude sometime in mid-October. Check back here for updates.Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-54263288945028168722013-07-30T07:25:00.000-07:002013-07-30T07:42:32.081-07:00East Waco mural postcards are hereOrder your postcards! They are .50 each plus $3 for postage.<br />
Contact us at <b>midamericamuralproject@gmail.com</b> to place an order.<br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031163793818400687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099251134395574410.post-12551344322010681482013-07-03T20:25:00.003-07:002013-07-03T21:45:22.255-07:00The Completed East Waco Mural!<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Storytellers: Sharing the Legacy</span></b></i><br />
East Branch Library, 901 Elm Avenue, Waco, Texas <br />
Completed on June 30, 2013<br />
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<b>lead artist</b> Dave Loewenstein<br />
<b>assistant</b> Ashley Jane Laird<br />
<b>apprentice</b> Catherine Hart<br />
<b>project coordinator </b> Doreen Ravenscroft<br />
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East Waco mural was designed and painted in collaboration with more
than one hundred community volunteers. We are indebted to all of them
for their hard work and generosity of spirit.<br />
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<b>This project was supported in part by:</b><br />
Mid-America Arts Alliance<br />
National Endowment for the Arts <br />
Cultural Arts of Waco<br />
City of Waco<br />
NeighborWorks Waco<br />
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<b>Special thanks to: </b><br />
Doreen Ravenscroft <br />
Gale Edwards<br />
James Karney<br />
the East Branch Librarians<br />
Megan Crook<br />
Mary Kennedy <br />
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