Mural Project:
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Ideas were gathered from people on the street that live and travel through the area.
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Park is a inner city neighborhood boarded by two freeways that separate it from
other residential districts.
It is a urban community with a unique mix of people including those with low income or no income, nurses, workers, homeowners, rental apartment dwellers, young students, the elderly, and transients. |
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Community involvement was
encouraged with posters (some in Spanish) announcing events throughout the
project.
Important outreach projects included art workshops. Sketchbooks designed and handed out by the artist to street traffic reached people in the neighborhood that otherwise might not have become involved. |
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| Individually put together by volunteers, the blank sketchbooks had pencils attached and were distributed in order to gain wider input for the mural. | ||
| Artist Rene' Joseph took the various drawings and suggestions from the sketchbooks and workshops and used them to create a final, more personal design. |  |
As a thank you, the enclosed note in the sketchbooks explained to the recipient to place the bird in the palm of one's hand and to continue a poetic dream of life. |
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