My computer is my tool box too. (I would dearly love to have a lap top that I could take with me to the schools. Truly mobile ...truly independent!!) With my computer/internet.. tool box I can collect images, find ideas, cut and paste, push and pull until, once satisfied, I can print to an overhead and project onto a wall. Once the system is streamlined painting a mural can be a fairly straightforward and time/cost effective venture.
This is the visible tangible face of the mural artist. A less visible, less tangible, and totally indefinable tool box is the one I have added to the links section of Mural Creation. Tool Box For Community Builders This tool box is relevant to those mural artists and those groups that decide to make mural art an integral part of their community life.
Muraling Communities
The In The Village of Lumby the people decided after the closing of the two local saw mills to diversify its economical base in order for the town to survive. The object of the muraling exercise was to make Lumby aesthetically appealing, to give a lift to the people living in the area as well as increase the sale of property, and to encourage tourists to search out "The Gateway to the Monashee" and visit this little town. The Mural Art Project on the other hand utilises the genre as a Catalyst for social change. The project offers free art workshops to hundreds of Philadelphia youth. These workshops train young artists as mural painters and prepare youth to become independent, responsible adults and leaders in their communities. This project uses art education to provide job readiness skills, leadership training, and to show youth that they have the power to change their social world.
Some mural projects are targeted at a social issue. AWARENESS PROJECT "Art of Manipulation - Tobacco, Alcohol and Substance Abuse" .... is one of these.
"The on-going and ever-growing mural, a montage of the stories and artwork created at the workshops, is used as a tool of education to enlighten others about the health risks of tobacco use."
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