Day 3: Monday Mural Day!

On Monday we welcome a new group of college students to our class, as well as Mural Arts Program muralist, Shira Walinsky!

We began class  by brainstorming questions about being an artist/murals in the city/and Mural Arts Program to ask Shira.

To introduce ourselves we went around the room and each asked a question. Some of the questions we had were:

• Is it hard to think of an idea?
• What murals did you do? Where are they?
• What inspired you to be an artist?
• Where do you get your inspiration?
• What is your favorite mural in Philly?
• What does it mean to be an artist?
• How many years does it take to become an artist?
• How long does it take to complete a mural?
• What does Mural Arts entail?
• What age did you start your first mural?
• What made you want to be an artist?
• What else does Mural Arts include?
• WHY is painting a mural so important?
• What happens when you mess up on a mural?
• How do you design a mural with a community?

We spent class learning more about the history of murals in general, the Mural Arts Program in Philly, and talking about specific murals we liked in the city. One that kept coming up is on 52nd st and is pictured below:

 

Parkway students also talked about their interest in creating self-portraits that would be accompanied by quotes or different kinds of text. This is an idea that we will follow up on in the SSB in the coming weeks!

The rest of class we worked on finishing up decoriating our journals and getting to know each other.