Word: mural
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...first I was thought, what, research?” recalls Guillery. “I was like ‘oh man, back into the library,’ and I just got out of school! But then it made sense, and it really helped the mural...
Last week, students filtered in to the Boston Youth Fund’s Fenway area headquarters after school and hurried to finish their individual four-by- eight murals. The basement studio was calm as the students concentrated on their work, some putting on the final details, others still wondering how to fill large blank spaces. Four-year mural crew veteran Kerry Coleman, a junior at Catholic Memorial, was painting the tusks on Hannibal’s elephants crossing the Alps, completing his depiction of the Barbarian invaders. “This is pretty fun,” he commented...
...common theme of the sixteen murals, “Civilization,” has inspired a variety of responses—depictions of social ills, historical scenes, symbolistic allegories. Some students take advantage of the public exhibition to make a commentary on everyday life in Boston. Devon Guillery, a junior at West Roxbury High School, divided his mural with a street: on the right side are pristine white houses with doghouses and porches, and on the left, a boarded up housing project. In the foreground, two young men walk by gazing pensively out of the painting...
...summer mural program demands a good deal of physical labor in addition to artistic skills. “Working out in the hot sun isn’t that much fun,” said Ariana Barr, a junior at Boston Latin. Guillery cringed about working high up on the scaffolding, saying he always preferred to be on the ground. Once, he recalled, his crew disturbed a nest of bees in a decaying wall and had to run for cover...
Sharp and to the point, Schork is used to talking with visitors; the combination of public art and urban youth allures policy researchers and journalists alike. Back in 1991, a photo of a mural crew at work in Dorchester made the front page of the Boston Globe. That particular project, only the second that Schork directed, used a geometric style of South African wall painting to incorporate the names of fifteen young men killed in gang violence. The result, Schork recalls, meant both positive attention for the muralists, almost entirely young women, and a meaningful piece of public...