screen painting at the creative alliance
This screen-painted mural was completed in 2014 with support from the Southeast CDC and the Painted Screen Society of Baltimore. Nancy Scheinman of NS Studios and Elaine Eff were project leads, with support from myself and Hanna Moran of Red Swan Studios on design and painting. The design was chosen from a competition, awarded due to the representation of a beloved community festival, the annual Lantern Parade in Patterson Park.
Please go check it out the next time you are at the Creative Alliance! From the inside, you can’t see the paint, but you can see through the screen. You can only see the mural from the outside, which is how screen painting is meant to function. (as a decorative and artful form of privacy on first floor rowhomes in Baltimore, dating back to the mid-century)
Mural at belle grove elementary
cOMMUNITY MURAL WITH brush MURAL FEST\
This mural was painted in five hours with dozens of community volunteers of all ages! I designed a simple mural based on a five and dime coupon book that references the location’s history as a five and dime historic district, with an Antique Row, several famous department stores, artist galleries, furniture stores, and of course - water ice and food stands at Lexinginton Market. The mural is located inside a parking lot along Howard Street.
Murals with Spectrum studio
From 2015 - 2018, I co-designed and painted murals with Spectrum Studio, an education-based mural collective composed of illustrator and painters Mary Grace Corpus, Hanna Moran, and Lindy Swan. We primarily designed and painted murals at schools that served students with special needs at the Baltimore-based non-profit, The Children's Guild and Monarch Academy. Our goal was to reflect the diverse student body and the international baccalaureate curriculum in the school’s environment, and celebrate the school’s civic engagement and social justice focus. In 2018, we parted ways to work on individual projects. I took a position at the Neighborhood Design Center to focus on public design and community development, while my fellow painters started a new mural studio called Red Swan - check out their new, beautiful mural work! Mary Grace Corpus’ incredible illustration work can be found @marygcorpus on instagram.
You can visit this archived website for a more in-depth look at previous mural work.
