Posted March 9, 200718 yr ArtWorks funded to create murals BY SARA PEARCE | March 9, 2007 Murals will be popping up in neighborhoods throughout Cincinnati this summer as part of MuralWorks, a new ArtWorks public art and summer employment project. Artworks and the City of Cincinnati are partnering on the project, which will be funded by the city, UBS Investments and Procter & Gamble. There is a two-year commitment, totaling $400,000 a year. But that could grow, says Tamara Harkavy, executive director of ArtWorks. The program will operate the same way as other summer employment programs under the 11-year-old nonprofit’s umbrella for which Greater Cincinnati teens ages 14-19 are hired at minimum wage and paired with professional artists to create public art. Projects have ranged from murals to publications to films. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/LIFE/303090051
March 9, 200718 yr This sounds like a GREAT program...hopefully we get some nice iconic murals for city neighborhoods to be proud of!
April 2, 200718 yr Neighborhoods can apply for mural Cincinnati's neighborhoods have until April 30 to apply for a mural. MuralWorks, a new year-round public art collaboration between the city and ArtWorks, has a goal of creating unique murals in every city neighborhood. They hope to complete at least a half dozen this year. They are hiring student apprentices to begin work on the murals this summer under the guidance of professional artists. Mural applications will be reviewed by a committee composed of ArtWorks staffers, artists, the public and Carla Walker, the mayor's chief of staff. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/NEWS01/704020396/1056/COL02
April 2, 200718 yr This sounds like a GREAT program...hopefully we get some nice iconic murals for city neighborhoods to be proud of! QFT and here's why CINCINNATI - Murals will be popping up in neighborhoods throughout Cincinnati this summer as part of MuralWorks, a new ArtWorks public art and summer employment project. Urban Murals almost always = Excellent. The program will operate the same way as other summer employment programs under the 11-year-old nonprofit’s umbrella for which Greater Cincinnati teens ages 14-19 are hired at minimum wage and paired with professional artists to create public art. /signed. I even got to participate in a smaller town version of this way back when. Projects have ranged from murals to publications to films. /signed again. I'd really like to see more urban art. Something a bit more pronounced than say Percent for Art and other incentivized programs. Don't get me wrong, those are steps in the right directions, but some cities should push their public art and create (or add to) an identity. As many as 80 teens and 16 artists will be hired specifically for MuralWorks. They will work part-time, approximately 22 hours a week, with the length of employment varying, depending on the size of the murals being created. Excellent. He thinks this project will engender the same excitement but with an added economic impact. “You have 80 kids hired for the summer, 16 artists hired to teach the kids – the kids will learn how to become artists and be paid, the artists will teach and be paid, and the neighborhoods will benefit because they will be left with murals.” This is pretty much the reason why this is cool, everyone wins. The kids get summer employment they'll actually enjoy. If those kids want to major in visual arts they've got a nice portfolio entry. The artists get to teach and influence future artists. The neighborhoods get awesome murals and it really brings about a sense of place and community. Every city neighborhood should apply for a mural. fixt. I mean go for it, its pretty awesome.
April 2, 200718 yr Philadelphia has been known for their VERY successful Mural Arts Program. They give tours of their murals and the program has helped to beautify many bldgs in Philadelphia's inner-city. Hopefully Cincinnati's program can eventually blossom into the success story that Philadelphia's has!
June 14, 200718 yr Media Bridges receives the first MuralWorks BY NICOLE HAMILTON | DOWNTOWNER June 13, 2007 OVER-THE-RHINE - The exterior walls of Media Bridges on Central Parkway may be bare now, but they won't be for long. Thanks to ArtWorks and Mayor Mark Mallory's Summer Youth Jobs Initiatives, the building has been chosen to receive a neighborhood mural in the first summer of MuralWorks. Seven Cincinnati communities including Clifton, Downtown, Madisonville, Millvale, Over-the-Rhine, Roselawn and Walnut Hills were chosen for the project. The goal of MuralWorks is to transform neighborhoods by creating inspirational works of public art that will have a lasting community impact. "There was a lot of solicitation from the communities for this project," says Jan Brown Checco, a mural artist who sits on the MuralWorks steering committee. "We met with community groups, had conversations and collected stories to build the design out of communication. This was a pretty inclusive and authentic process." The summer project will employ 84 student apprentices and about 25 teaching artists, says Adam Mysock, MuralWorks coordinator. The goal is to make MuralWorks a year-round project. "This is just the first summer of MuralWorks. The program will leave a positive impact on our city for years," says Mallory. "Eventually, we could have multiple murals in all of our neighborhoods." In March, MuralWorks began accepting applications from communities that wanted neighborhood murals. The steering committee reviewed the applications and selected seven projects that were spread throughout the city. At that time, ArtWorks began interviewing and hiring young painters to create the murals as artist apprentices. Now, ArtWorks will work with the communities to develop and approve the subject matter for the murals. Many of the project's artwork has already been approved, including designs for a mural outside Keller's IGA in Clifton's gaslight area. A second Central Parkway mural will be on the side of Barry Rothchild Law Office, which is located at Central Parkway and Race Street. "It's really going to brighten up our neighborhood," says Bryan Valerius of Keller's IGA. "We are starting to make great improvements to the street and this will only help." Youth artist apprentices will start work with an all day training and orientation at the Cincinnati Art Museum on June 18. Then, the aprentices will be divided into teams to work on the different projects. Each team will be matched with a professional artist mentor, who will manage the project and train the apprentices. "For ArtWorks, MuralWorks will provide jobs and income for talented teens. MuralWorks also offers the opportunity for local residents to collaborate with professional artists, giving communities the chance to express neighborhood identity through the creation of large-scale community murals,"says Tamara Harkavy, director of ArtWorks. For the first two years of the program, MuralWorks has received $120,000 from the City of Cincinnati as part of the Mayor's Summer Youth Jobs Initiative. That public investment allowed ArtWorks to leverage over $400,000 in private grants from UBS, The P&G Fund, and The H.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank and Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees. MuralWorks has the funding for seven projects this summer. However, MuralWorks is still seeking additional corporate or charitable partners for three additional projects slated for this fall: Northside, Price Hill and Over-the-Rhine. Charitable foundations or corporations interested in supporting MuralWorks should contact, ArtWorks at (513) 333-0388. The long term goal is to create a sustainable mural program that will create murals in every Cincinnati neighborhood over the next several years. For more information visit www.artworks.org.
June 20, 200717 yr The Big Picture Muralworks paints the city BY LAURA JAMES | June 18, 2007 I was driving down Central Parkway one morning last week when I noticed Mayor Mark Mallory. He was standing with a group of people in an Over-the-Rhine cranny, behind an official-looking podium and in front of a plain brick wall. I wondered why the mayor would hold a press conference in what appeared to be an arbitrary, unsightly spot. As I drove past, I didn't notice that among those standing with Mallory was a cluster of teenagers and the director of ArtWorks, Tamara Harkavy. I later learned that Mallory and Harkavy and the teens were standing in that awkward place to announce the first summer of MURALWORKS, a new component of Mallory's Summer Youth Jobs Initiative. Read full article here: http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A139700
August 16, 200717 yr Coming to a Building Near You MuralWorks changes the lives of teen apprentices and community residents BY SARAH STEPHENS | August 15, 2007 Does art have the power to change the way we look at our communities and ourselves? By creating collaborations among local residents, community leaders, businesses, artists and teens in their latest project, ArtWorks certainly thinks so. This is the inaugural year for the new MuralWorks program, which employs teen artists to paint murals throughout the city -- with results that hopefully will be around for a long time. In fact, ArtWorks Executive Director Tamara Harkavy's ambitious yet attainable goal is to eventually reach every neighborhood in Cincinnati. Read full article here: http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A140936
August 23, 200717 yr A green project for ArtWorks BY SARA PEARCE | August 23, 2007 Giant cupped hands, crawling salamanders and leaping catfish, bass and sunfish are being plunged into a shallow, sloping concrete bed alongside Mill Creek in Spring Grove Village's Salway Park. In the months to come, the figures will be surrounded by water, wetland plantings, a butterfly garden and trees. But that's hard to imagine when looking at the dirt-covered crew sweating under the midday August sun. New York artist Jackie Brookner is here for two weeks overseeing the installation of sculptures for Laughing Brook. They were created in 2004 by a group of ArtWorks apprentices under her direction and that of Cincinnati artists Anthony Luensman and Gordon Strain. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070823/ENT07/708230302/1025
August 24, 200717 yr we need to triple artworks' budget, they really throw down. can anyone think of an artworks let down? this guy can't
February 12, 200817 yr Dohoney: Set aside money for public art Under idea, projects get cents on capital dollar BY JANE PRENDERGAST | February 12, 2008 From the Tyler Davidson Fountain downtown to smaller works in city parks, Cincinnati has more than 30 pieces of public art - but no formal program, policies, inventory or set way to buy new art or maintain current works. All that should change, says City Manager Milton Dohoney. His staff pitched a plan - now making its way through council - to hire a consultant to help set up a public art master plan and start a "percent for art" funding mechanism, as many cities have had for years. That would designate a percentage of money from all eligible city capital improvement projects. Details of the proposal are up in the air, including what percentage should be set aside, to which projects it would apply and whether the city or developer would kick in the money. Dohoney's memo cites San Diego and Portland, Ore., both of which set aside 2 percent. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NEWS01/802120349/1056/COL02
March 11, 200817 yr The city as canvas Nine locations planned for second round of murals by professional artists and teens BY SARA PEARCE | March 11, 2008 Nine Cincinnati neighborhoods are about to get an artful touch: murals. The first locations for the second year of MuralWorks were announced Monday by Mayor Mark Mallory and ArtWorks director Tamara Harkavy. The painting begins later this month on a sign-filled wall of a pony keg in Carthage, and the bare south and west sides of the Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society Museum in Queensgate. In June, more crews will head to Avondale, Camp Washington, Columbia Tusculum, downtown, East Walnut Hills, Over-the-Rhine and Spring Grove Village. Twenty-five neighborhoods applied this time around. Ed Pfetzing decided that his East Walnut Hills neighborhood was ripe for a mural after he spotted "Canal at Vine Street circa 1900" on the former Barlow Motors Building at Race Street and Central Parkway. It depicts a canal boat docked on the waterway that once passed a few yards from the building. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS01/803110342/1056/COL02
March 18, 200817 yr Mallory, ArtWorks announce 9 new mural locations BY KEVIN LEMASTER | SOAPBOX CINCINNATI March 18, 2008 CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and ArtWorks have announced nine new mural locations for the second summer of the MuralWorks program. The new murals will be painted in Avondale, Camp Washington, Carthage, Columbia Tusculum, Downtown, East Walnut Hills, Over-the-Rhine, Queensgate, and Spring Grove Village. Painting will begin June 16. Developed in 2007 as part of the mayor's ArtWorks Summer Job Program for teen artists, the goal of the program is to transform neighborhoods by creating inspirational works of public art that will have a lasting community impact. ArtWorks will interview area teens between the age of 14-19, and as many as 110 will be selected to work alongside professional artists to complete the projects. "For ArtWorks, MuralWorks will provide jobs and income for talented teens," says Tamara Harkavy, Director of ArtWorks. "MuralWorks also offers the opportunity for local residents to collaborate with professional artists, giving communities the chance to express neighborhood identity through the creation of large-scale community murals." OKI estimates that more than 41 million cars were exposed to the murals in the nine communities receiving them last year. A list of the locations of this year's sites is available on the ArtWorks website. Three to six additional mural locations are expected to be announced this year. Images with article link
March 19, 200817 yr You Cincy folks are lucky to have such a good city manager! That % "tax" of the capital budget is an innovative way to fund this.
September 9, 200816 yr MuralWorks program wants takers http://www.soapboxmedia.com/devnews/muralworks0909.aspx With a deadline of October 15, ArtWorks Cincinnati is seeking community applications for its spring and summer 2009 work program. MuralWorks seeks to beautify the City by creating murals that reflect each participating community while engaging residents, fostering civic pride, and employing local youth in meaningful art apprenticeships. Since summer 2007, 17 murals have been painted in 14 Cincinnati neighborhoods, covering more than 23,000 square feet of what were once blank walls. More than 200 teen artists have taken part in the program. Participating communities are required to provide a contact person, secure studio space, a mural-ready surface, and between 5 percent and 50 percent of the average $30,000 project cost, depending on neighborhood income levels. They must also show community commitment and a plan to maintain the mural once it is completed. Joe Gorman, community organizer with the Camp Washington Community Board, says that he likes what the recently completed - and controversial - "Campy Washington" mural has done for his neighborhood. "We hope the Campy Washington mural will get people to stop and shop in Camp Washington, consider living and working here, and, to appreciate bold art that has a sense of humor," he says. "Plus, the mural is encouraging the building owner to paint the rest of his building, helping save one of the last historic structures in our community."
March 8, 200916 yr I was thinking last night that this is a picture that needs to be a mural in the uptown area. Preferably in an area that sees a lot of foot traffic and would be highly noticeable. Maybe on along Calhoun or McMillian. Possibly with Oscar Robertson in color and keep everything else in black and white. He is a local sports hero who definitely doesn't get his due. http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/robertson/action_oscar_ncaa.jpg Any thoughts on making this happen? I also would like to see this mural be slightly edgy for the college environment.
March 8, 200916 yr ^I think that's a great idea. You should try emailing someone from ArtWorks about the idea. From there you would need to get a spot picked out that has support from the neighborhood.
March 20, 200916 yr This is the response that I got back. ----------------------------------------- Thanks for your email Brandon. Thanks for your praise of the MuralWorks program. It is always nice to hear positive feedback! I think this is a great image and a great idea for a mural. We will see if we can work towards it. I forwarded the image to a muralist who I know who I think would do a great job painting such an image. It would be a challenge but it would be fantastic visually. It reminds me of a couple of murals the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in tribute to their sports stars: One of Dr. J: http://enrico.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/06/doctorjmural.jpg Also this baseball mural: http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/phil_murals/phil_mural_09.jpg Thanks so much for the suggestion. We will have to work to find an appropriate wall and an agreeable building owner. We’ll see what we can do.
March 20, 200916 yr This is the response that I got back. ----------------------------------------- Thanks for your email Brandon. Thanks for your praise of the MuralWorks program. It is always nice to hear positive feedback! I think this is a great image and a great idea for a mural. We will see if we can work towards it. I forwarded the image to a muralist who I know who I think would do a great job painting such an image. It would be a challenge but it would be fantastic visually. It reminds me of a couple of murals the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in tribute to their sports stars: One of Dr. J: http://enrico.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/06/doctorjmural.jpg Also this baseball mural: http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/phil_murals/phil_mural_09.jpg Thanks so much for the suggestion. We will have to work to find an appropriate wall and an agreeable building owner. We’ll see what we can do. That is awesome and would be really cool in the UC area!
June 16, 200915 yr The building at the northwest corner of Central Parkway and Vine Street (with Park+Vine) is currently being prepped for a mural that will be a part of this year's ArtWorks program. I spoke with Dan Korman about it today and he said he's excited and looks forward to seeing what the design will be (stay tuned).
July 21, 200915 yr The building at the northwest corner of Central Parkway and Vine Street (with Park+Vine) is currently being prepped for a mural that will be a part of this year's ArtWorks program. I spoke with Dan Korman about it today and he said he's excited and looks forward to seeing what the design will be (stay tuned). It appears the design will be a four story likeness of Mr. Cincinnati.
July 21, 200915 yr Yeah, that's what I thought too. I'll be going around town for the next few weeks getting photographs of all these murals. If anyone is interested in tagging along, let me know!
July 21, 200915 yr There is also a new project at the top of Wheeler St on McMillan... It looks really good.
July 21, 200915 yr Artworks is awesome. I've seen murals at Central Parkway, McMillan in OTR, and Madison in O'Brionville. Good stuff.
August 17, 200915 yr I like it but the "shadow" behind him just looks like a bad paint job. It certainly doesn't look like a shadow and should be fixed.
August 17, 200915 yr I like the Tarbell painting, but i think the picture could have been taken from a different angle so the street light didn't make it look like the dude has a hard on.
August 19, 200915 yr I like the Tarbell painting, but i think the picture could have been taken from a different angle so the street light didn't make it look like the dude has a hard on. HAHAHAHA!
October 12, 200915 yr Building official gets go-ahead for six MuralWorks sites http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/10/building-official-gets-go-ahead-for-six.html By Kevin LeMaster | Building Cincinnati, October 12, 2009 Late last month, Cincinnati City Council passed a notwithstanding ordinance to allow for MuralWorks murals to be painted at six Cincinnati locations. The ordinance authorizes the chief building official to issue permits for murals at 2392 Wheeler Street in Clifton Heights, 3841 Spring Grove Avenue in Northside, 3564 Montgomery Road in Evanston, 2114 Madison Road in O'Bryonville, 1733 Dirr Street in South Cumminsville, and SORTA Bridge 3.92 (Delta Avenue, Columbia Tusculum). The Wheeler Street mural – in addition to murals at 1109 Vine Street and 1308 Race Street in Over-the-Rhine – have already been completed. MuralWorks, a program administered through ArtWorks, pairs professional and teenage artists with community members to create transformative works of public art on blank walls throughout the City's neighborhoods. Approximately 80 youth are participating in this year's program. The program is funded with $120,000 from the City, which has leveraged more than $400,000 in private grants. Since 2007, 21 murals have been completed in 15 Cincinnati neighborhoods.
January 11, 201015 yr CAC needs outdoor sites for Fairey murals By Kevin LeMaster | Building Cincinnati, January 11, 2010 http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2010/01/cac-needs-outdoor-sites-for-fairey.html In preparation for next month's opening of the Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is seeking wall spaces throughout the City for the exhibition's public murals. By February 4, the CAC is looking to find at least 30 outdoor spaces for the installations, which will consist of long-lasting – but not permanent – pasted paper and wheat paste artworks. Submissions can be made to CAC Chief Preparator Joel Armor at [email protected] and should include an image of the wall, building, or site; the address of the site; the site's approximate dimensions; and the property owner's name and contact information. Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand will run on levels 4 and 5 of the CAC from February 20 through August. Best known for the 2008 presidential campaign's Barack Obama "Hope" poster, the exhibition will feature a more than 80-work retrospective of the artist, graphic designer and illustrator's 20-year career. Fairey, who resides in Los Angeles, last had his work displayed at the CAC during the Beautiful Losers exhibition in 2004.
January 11, 201015 yr ^I was just at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and Fairey was showcased there as well. They showed pictures of all the murals he had put up around Pittsburgh, and it looked pretty cool.
May 6, 201015 yr Dedication tonight for Artworks mural By Jennifer Baker, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 6, 2010 COLUMBIA TUSCULUM - A 5 p.m. dedication ceremony will be held Thursday for an Artworks mural 2½ years in the making that is now on display in this eastern Cincinnati neighborhood, according to http://www.columbiatusculum.org
July 28, 20159 yr ArtWorks has been installing a bunch of mini-murals around town. Each one contains a stanza from a poem called "Seven Hills and a Queen to Name Them" but has a completely different feel: Two huge new murals along Liberty Street in OTR featuring James Brown and Ezzard Charles:
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