For: September 18th, 2008, Eugene Oregon
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Eugene, Ore. – The corner of Lincoln and 8th Ave. will get a little brighter this week thanks to the efforts of a team of at-risk youth from the Eugene-Springfield area, and celebrated muralist artist Steven Lopez.
This group, called the Youth Mural Collective, will turn a 15-by-75 foot gray [...]
Filed under: Press Release by admin Date 19 September, 2008
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After a week long brainstorm session it looks like we have all come to a concise example of what the mural is going to look like. I’m really excited about this poject. Within a couple of days the wall will be primed; the scaffolding will be erected and paint will be ready for us to [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 19 September, 2008
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In order to get my students on the same page I had them get into groups and bridge their ideas together. They had all agreed on a concrete list of themes. They were recycling, friendship, freedom, music and polar differences. Below you will see them drawing around the theme and then combining their ideas into [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 18 September, 2008
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The challenge has been bringing multiple ideas into a cohesive design. There were many ways I was thinking about doing this. We thought about painting roadways to connect the many aspects of the town. We thought about wavy lines to tell the story. There were many avenues to choose from. I brought up the idea [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 17 September, 2008
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Here is a time lapse in a much larger arena. I worked on this for about 10 hours; over a 3 day period. Enjoy:
Fenario Gallery installation from ikeepmoving.com on Vimeo.
Filed under: Events, video by admin Date 16 September, 2008
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Okay, Okay, Okay…I’ve been keeping this on the back burner even though both of my feet are planted in this program as we speak. I was hoping that the Press Release would be out by now; but it’s not. Here is a little run down as to what is happening at this moment (this was [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 10 September, 2008
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5 Months into the making and it all came down smoothly. I have a lot of pics to sift through…but in the mean time you can check these pics that my mom took. God should have blessed her eye sight along with her heart because a lot of them came out blurry. MOM! no more [...]
Filed under: Events by admin Date 10 September, 2008
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I was at McFadden’s in Portland doing a painting to the sounds of Dj Wicked and DJ P. The venue was interesting as it seemed like not the place for something like this to happen. My homie Wicked kicked it live with his set. That’s why I look so angry. Oh and I want to [...]
Filed under: Events by admin Date 4 September, 2008
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