The Rock Lot, City Wide Mural projects and more!
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July 2017 | Bi-Weekly News
CITY-WIDE MURAL PROJECTS
Our three city-wide mural projects have been a huge success spanning the communities from Westside to Riverside. We are grateful to all the residents, and supporters of these projects , a special shout-out to artists Corei and Crae Washington of Smashed Label, James Wyatt, and Eric Okdeh for their creativity and talent — their dedication to the projects is evident in the process.
Each mural began by engaging the residents of the community to join open conversations to express their ideas for the image. The artist then developed a design and presented it to the community for feedback and approval. Once the final image was established the artist scaled the image to the size of the wall, breaking the image into multiple panels on special cloth, known as parachute cloth, for painting.
The community was then invited to attend the paint days — everyone was welcome, no experience was necessary! For this city-wide mural project, each mural community had 3 scheduled paint days in June. A "mural squad" of 10 dedicated local artists participated in all the community paint days, even the Mayor stopped by to add to the mix!
2 out of the 3 murals have been installed. The mural located at Kingswood Community Center will be installed by the end of July.
Dedication ceremonies for each mural will be announced soon!
It is great to know so many people are willing to #BeCreativeInWilm!
Monroe Street
Franklin & Lancaster St.
Kingswood
THE ROCK LOT IS UNDER WAY
WHAT'S NEXT? JOIN US!
THANK YOU, MOVIES ON TAPP!
Thank you to Movies On Tap at Penn Cinema; Beers, Movies, Community., Premier Wine & Spirits, Penn Cinema Riverfront, and Tröegs Independent Brewing for helping raise $2,560 dollars for Creative District Wilm! This money will go towards our NextMakerz program which will help young Wilmingtonians get access to valuable work skills at NextFab.
And a BIG thank you to all who attended!
GRAVITY ARTS & SCIENCE FESTIVAL WAS OUT OF THIS WORLD
Bringing together the Arts and Sciences, FourYouth Productions, Wilmington Placemakers, and Creative District teamed up to show Wilmington youth that these two worlds can coexist!
On July 10th, Rodney Square was the home of the Gravity Arts & Science Festival. A fun afternoon of 20+ STEM and Arts activities from community partners: Creative District, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Children's Museum, UDairy, Trader Joes, University of Delaware's K-12 Engineering, UD Art in Science, Delaware Orthopedic Specialist, STRIDE, AAUW, Chemours, Fischer Scientific, Fun Department, Moe FTC Robotics, Barrel of Makers, the Delaware Astronomical Society, Cvant Photography and Artist Avenue Station.
It was a fabulous day! Learn more details about this event, visit: gravityfestival.org
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CREATIVE DISTRICT? VISIT US AT OUR TENT AT THE DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET ON RODNEY SQUARE:
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CreativeDistrictWilm.com
Wilmington’s Creative District is a part of a national wave of creative placemaking initiatives that seek to transform urban areas.
The community revitalizationThank you to the following publications for media coverage on this exciting news: project encompasses the area bounded by Fourth, Ninth, Market and Washington Streets and is driven by a strong collaboration from a variety of partners:
Chris White Community Development Corporation, Christina Cultural Arts Center, City of Wilmington, Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware, Quaker Hill Neighborhood Association and Wilmington Renaissance Corporation.
Creative District Wilmington projects are generously supported by: Bank of America, CityFest, City of Wilmington Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Wilmington Dept. of Real Estate & Housing, Colonial Parking, Connections CSP, Delaware Division of the Arts, Delaware Dept. of State, Delaware State Housing Authority, Delmarva Power, Downtown Visions, DuPont, FHLB Pittsburgh, Gable Music Ventures, Highmark Delaware, IBEW Local #313, Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware, JPMorgan Chase, Longwood Foundation, Lowe’s, MSP Equipment Rentals, National Endowment for the Arts, NCALL, NeighborWorks America, TD Bank Foundation, United Way of Delaware, and WSFS Bank.
