SFMOMA Teen Mural Project in DeFremery Park Chapter 6 Posted on March 7, 2009 by ashap
[SFMOMA has commissioned renowned artist Kerry James Marshall to create two murals for the museum's Haas Atrium. For over 30 years, Marshall has explored stories of racial identity, the Civil Rights movement, and unsung histories in his work. In response to Marshall's works, fifteen teens from three Oakland high schools are designing and producing a collaborative mural, in Town Park at DeFremery Park, focusing on the themes of silenced histories and storytelling. We’re blogging about it here on Saturdays.]
Working on the composite. Photo: Sonny
Last week the teens spent hours (and when I say hours, I mean HOURS) working on the composite drawing for their response mural. Everyone had their own part: reworking lines on previous drawings, reducing and enlarging drawings on the photocopy machine, and placing all of the drawings on the mural wall mock-up. At 3:00 pm, an hour after the program ended, five dedicated teens were STILL in the Koret Visitor Education studios, drawing and tracing away. By 4:15, three teens remained sitting around a table, tracing the last lines onto the composite.
Drawing it up. Photo: Dalena
Sonny, an avid skateboarder and drawer, had this to say about last week’s session:
“Today our group put together all the main and center pieces of the mural. It was a nice, fun, relaxing day. All of us created and drew different parts of the Town Park mural. We then transferred it to one big piece of paper. Today was a good day.”
Thanks to Dalena and Sonny for their contributions to this week’s blog post. Next week: the color scheme.
Photo: Dalena
