EXCITED, thrilled, exhilarated, animated, enlivened, electrified; enraptured, adrenalized, enthusiastic, psyched – these are the words the thesaurus offered up, and somehow none of them come close to describing how we feel about the live painting event at this year’s Expo – The FOUR CORNERS MURAL PROJECT.
What was once just a wisp of an idea in the early stages of planning has become the creative cornerstone of the 2009 Expo for Independent Arts. You’re dying to know more, I know.
So…here’s the 411:
WHAT: The Four Corners Mural Project is a live painting event that brings together emerging and established artists and collectives from the four corners of the Bay Area to celebrate our theme “Art Works when Artists Work! – Creativity, Culture, Community”. Not one, not two, not three – we’re creating FOUR live murals that will live on after the Expo in their home communities and become part of a vibrant Bay Area dialogue.
WHY: We want to show ART in ACTION. There are exciting and incredible things happening in art scenes all over the Bay Area as well as in the city. The Four Corners Mural Project showcases the unique expression of independent voices, and brings the diversity of the entire Bay Area to the Expo!
WHEN & WHERE: ALL DAY Saturday, September 26th, 2009, in the midst of Expo festivities at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park.
WHO: This is the best part. IndyArts is excited and honored to be working with an absolutely stellar line up of artists.
In the East Corner we’ve got the newly named Quetzal Collective, a fantastic crew of socially-minded, community oriented, obscenely talented muralists that infuse the flavor of the East Bay straight into their paint. Check back soon for full bios and some sneak peaks of their current work!
From the South Bay we’ve got creative master Andy Gouveia. Andy is a California artist from San Jose who has worked in the Bay Area as both an artist and youth educator. He has painted over ten murals along the west coast and one mural in Japan, and his paintings have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Portland.
Representing the North Bay is Santa Rosa artist Brino Ism. Brino currently works as an artist for the Imagine Bus Project, a community arts and youth program based out of San Francisco and Sonoma. He’s also worked for over four years teaching teens incarcerated at the Juvenile Justice Center in Sonoma County and has produced murals all over Northern California.
Rounding out our line-up, and with no need of introduction, is Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center in San Francisco. Established in 1977 as an inner city, community-based mural arts organization, Precita Eyes has played an integral role in the city’s cultural heritage and arts education, creating and sponsoring ongoing mural projects from the Mission where their center is located, throughout the Bay Area, and even internationally. Their center in the Mission District offers incredible art classes and community mural projects for children, youth, and adults, and we are especially honored to collaborate with their Youth Program artists on the Four Corners Mural Project!
And here’s the kicker…
HOW: We want you to become part of this amazing live mural project! Come out to the Expo and see ART WORKING! Represent your community in the Bay! Click HERE to see what others are already doing and GET INVOLVED!
Tags: Arts & Culture, Expo for Independent Arts, public art, youth
