Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Welcome

Thanks to California College of Art student Manon Bogerd-Wada who designed this website with project management by LaserCom Design, I am able to share information about community murals and creativity! The contemporary murals on this website are from the San Francisco Bay Area. The projects reflect my grounding in community art. Please use the downloadable descriptions when visiting the murals. I am a Bay Area based artist who is returning to more focused visual art practice, after more than a decade of focus on art education and museum administration. I want to provide creative and educational services to local businesses, community organizations, museums, and schools. In my return to public art, I am collaborating with the accomplished artist Joaquin Alejandro Newman. We recently completed a 120 x 20’ mural for Straus Carpet Company in Oakland. We branded the new Straus Carpets warehouse with their signature female figure, painted on the original building next door, by Oakland muralists Dan Fontes and Ingrid Good, c. 2002-03. Both murals are hand-painted with acrylics, a refreshing possibility in a time when digital technology and industrial processes are producing large scale printed surfaces. If you want to appreciate the power of the hand, check out these murals at 2828 Ford Street, at the Park Street bridge to Alameda Island. I continue to draw. Check out my portrait of Barack Obama in a refashioned Loteria card at OD-CAP an important website on art and culture initiated by curator and cultural animateur Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins. Bookmark it and look in "Voices" for the Obama drawing. You can also see the original at The Greenlining Institute in Berkeley until Labor Day 2008. I will add regularly to this site. Until my next entry – stay creative, stay engaged! Eduardo