- Mural Project
Mural Project
The Ames C.art Mural Program strives to mobilize artistically inclined youth, adult, and elder residents of out community to create murals and public art projects within Story County, Iowa.
The Campustown Mural Project began as an initiative by the Campustown Student Association in the Spring of 2009. The owner of T-Galaxy agreed to the mural’s proposed location on the T-Galaxy building’s north wall. In September of 2009, Ames Collaborative Art (Ames C.art) was commissioned by the Campus Town Student Association to coordinate and actualize the Campustown Mural Project as the initiation of the Ames C.art Mural Program. The Campus Town Student Association will maintain a collaborative role in the project and help with funding acquisition and communication with Iowa State University.
All community members can contribute their ideas about what the Campustown mural should look like and represent. From Poetry to scaled drawings, we are accepting it all. The Deadline for submitting your impute and ideas for the new mural is Monday, March 1st, 2010.
Download the Campustown Mural Project Submission Form!
Help spread the word and download/print/post the Campustown Mural Project Flier!
Ames Collaborative Art, Inc (non-profit status pending) – Ames C.art – facilitates the collaboration between all media and art in order to infuse the community with creativity through public projects – be they workshops, lectures, or on the street art. Ames C.art encourages the growth, sharing, and collaboration of Ames area artists and creative do gooders. Ames C.art is ambulatory – on the move – collaborating with various businesses, organizations, and artists in order to host a variety of events that encourage creativity, growth, and participation of the community in the arts.
Ames C.art Mural Program
The Ames C.art Mural Project is based on a crew system where a Lead Designer is teamed with 3-5 Core Crew Members. Lead Designers are artistically talented community residents or are former core mural crew members who have gained enough experience to lead their own mural projects. The Core Crew Members are area youth or adults with an interest in art who are recruited through word-of-mouth or at school presentations.
The mural process encourages participants of different ages, communities and socio-economic backgrounds to collaborate, develop friendships, and learn from each other while developing their humanistic, life, and art skills. The crew collaborates and works together on all stages of mural planning and preparation. Additional community members may participate in the presentation and painting stages.
Mural Coordinator - Under general supervision from the Ames C.art board of directors, the Community Mural Coordinator is responsible for implementation, management and coordination of all aspects of the Ames C.art Mural Program.
Lead Designer - Alongside and with supervision of the Mural Coordinator, the Lead Designer is responsible for all aspects of individual mural projects with respect to the Ames C.art Mural Program. The purpose of the Lead Designer within the Ames C.art Mural Program is to empower/train community residents, who have innate artistic ability, and have not had the opportunity to develop and showcase that ability, with the skills to develop community murals or public art.
Core Mural Crew – 3-5 inexperienced/experienced youth or adult community residents, recruited through the Ames C.art Mural Program by the Mural Coordinator, by word-of-mouth or through presentations/workshops, who possess artistic skills, who want to develop their natural skills as an artist and have an interest in being active with the development of murals/public art within their neighborhoods. Core Mural Crew Members must be thorough in their commitment to the development and completion of each mural/public art piece and adhere to the schedules of workshops, research sessions, and mural/public art implementation and completion as set by the Lead Designer.
++ If you would like to be considered for the Core Mural Crew, email kristin@amescart.org with your contact information, you will be contacted within 48 hours with more details on how to submit a informal portfolio for review++
Mural Crew Volunteers can be anyone from anywhere, with or without artistic ability or experience, who want to experience the process of mural/public art development. Mural Crew Volunteers generally assist mural crew members, lead designers/hard core design team, mural facilitator or mural coordinator with general painting, equipment set-up/tear/down and maintenance, coordination of mural blessing and dedication ceremony, etc. Community residents can feel a sense of pride and ownership having taken part and contributed to the development and beautification of their barrios as Mural Volunteers.