Alley Art Festival was created to reinvent urban spaces with art and is part of an ongoing effort to enhance walkability between the Historic 4th and the Historic Pearl districts in Sioux City, IA. Alley Art Festival is a street art festival that provides local artists with a platform to show their skills by creating …
Richard Harrison founded the mural company in 1999 and it has since grown to include the work of over a dozen artists. Their work began with private commissions, schools, churches, and nursing homes and has grown into the public art sphere with their South Omaha Mural Project. The project is an initiative to create community …
Amanda Larson facilitates community involvement in the physical production of permanent large-scale sculptures, murals, and functional art pieces for public spaces using mediums of paint, clay, mosaic, cement, glass and metal. She graduated with her Masters in Fine Art, specializing in Social Practice and Community Art from California College of the Arts in 2019. She …
Amber Hansen is a muralist, visual artist and filmmaker who creates socially engaged and community-based artwork. Hansen’s work is a dialogue between her formal education and her rural upbringing. She promotes creative engagement for all ages while raising questions about the ethics of animal welfare and our relationship with food. Hansen is the co-director & …
Dave is a muralist, writer, and printmaker from Lawrence, Kansas. His celebrated community-based murals are found across the United States and abroad. His prints, which focus on current social issues, are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Dave is co-author of Kansas Murals: …
Susan Cervantes, Founding Director of Precita Eyes Muralists, is responsible for over 500 collaborative murals over four decades. Precita Eyes strives to empower communities and reflect their hopes and dreams. They use a community process where participants are given the opportunity to create their own mural. We work throughout the Bay Area and beyond in schools, community centers, health centers, and parks. Precita …
John Pitman Weber is an active public artist with decades of experience in mosaics, cement reliefs, carved brick, painted murals, and useable sculpture for outdoor spaces. He has led large work in Los Angeles, New York City, Spencer IA, Broward County, FL and recently in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His projects are in schools, on playgrounds and …
Annemarie Zwack is a visual artist who works with communities, using a variety of materials to create public art that expresses a sense of place, identity, and collective values. She facilitates the use of paint, clay, tiles, fabric, paper, and recycled materials of all sorts. She has specialized in Arts in Education since 2003; using art as …
Colette Crutcher works solo and collaboratively, most often with Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr or her husband Mark Roller, on public art installations including mosaics, murals, and paper mache sculptures for parades, concerts and demonstrations. Her Bay Area public works include Tonantsin Renace, 16th Ave Tiled Steps, 24th St. Minipark, Ping Yuen Housing Project, Chinatown Rec. Center, Cesar Chavez Park, (Oakland,) …
Artist Lynn Takata creates mosaics, sculpture and murals with children, families and neighborhoods to build tangible symbols of community pride. She has created over 300 public artworks with concrete, tile, glass, ceramic and paint involving hundreds of participants. Participants create their own designs and she choreographs these elements as the design develops. It is a …
Tom Arie Donch, president, has orchestrated hundreds of projects in twenty states over thirty years. With a passion for learning and sharing the ingredients of successful community built events he has collaborated with over fifty community built association members and firms. His work has included parks, playgrounds, public sculpture, murals, nature trails, skateboard parks, school …
Caryl Yasko has been a leading figure in the American Public Art Movement for more than forty years. She is well published internationally. She was a founding artist in the Chicago Mural Group and taught mural techniques at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and many colleges and universities, mostly in the Midwest. …
Our mission is to build community through creative projects. We collaborate with schools, libraries, community centers, municipalities and military facilities. Our projects include infrastructure (bridges, benches, maps, signs, gardens, trails, etc), public art (mosaics, concrete, ceramic murals, stained glass, metal, etc), and all kinds of fun experiences (puppets, parades, festivals, etc). We work with you …
Niki Glen and Helen Helwig direct large-scale public art pieces. Their work has been published in “Public Art: A World’s Eye View”. They have directed over 100 murals and specialize in community participation and involvement. “Public art belongs to everyone.” Their work graces walls of schools, libraries, botanical gardens, hospitals, and office buildings around the …
