The MLK Community Mural Project has just began it’s 2009 cycle. The project has been lucky to gain some outstanding artwork from a wide array of artists from around the greater Pittsburgh area and we wanted to give everyone out there a little sampling of what the 2009 Mural Cycle has to offer.
This design was submitted by Yuri Von for the Pennsylvania Macaroni Co. Mural.
MLK Community Project Art Director and Artist Lucas Stock gives us a musical offering unlike no other. This is called “Mural Rap” which features editing and music produced by Web & Media ManagerTemisan Adoki. We hope you enjoy.
Vannessa Germain shares her creative input with the group.
Getting ready to play back the newest acquired footage.
Kyle Holbrook makes suggestions for the crew working on the movie this year.
The movie so far looks GREAT!
The MLK Community Mural Project is for Pittsburgh the biggest and brightest art venture in the city’s history, with murals scheduled to cover 26 walls throughout the city and already engaging hundreds of Pittsburgh’s biggest and brightest residents.
Currently, we’ve produced more than a dozen murals along the MLK East Busway, spanning eight neighborhoods. The dimensions are larger than life. The colors are purposefully vivid and visually stimulating. The images are jazzy and abstract. The narratives painted are of great historical significance. Most importantly, we are developing the vast artistic and intellectual wealth represented by our gifted Pittsburgh youth.
Many of Pittsburgh’s most legendary artists have come forth to mentor dozens of Pittsburgh teens and their families in the production and tremendous value of public art as a way of strengthening communities. Kids learn about the historic figures and events of their neighborhoods and then translate what they learn into beautiful organic images on the walls.
This blog will serve as a communication point and source of information for all of those involved in the project for this year. The blog will feature many things such as pictures of upcoming projects, videos of the projects, and words from the artists involved in the mural themselves. In doing this, we hope to give the people out there reading this blog a more in depth idea of what goes on behind the scenes to make such a large undertaking happen. As well, this blog will serve to better explain to the public the benefit of the arts in the lives of young people.
Back in 2007 the Moving the Lives of Kids Community Mural Project was called Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway Community Mural Project . We created a video then about the project called "A Paint Pait" a 5min presentation about the MLK Jr. East Busway Community Mural Project. Over the summer of 2007 KH Designs painted 26 Murals all over the City of Pittsburgh.
