P.L.A.C.E. Program & College of Fine Arts
LIVING MURAL PROJECT
A CALL TO ALL
Art History - Dance - Media Arts - Music - Studio Arts - Theatre

To work with Visiting Community Artists

The Living Mural is a community service project coordinated by the College of Fine Arts’ PLACE Program. Over the coming months, The Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Central New Mexico will sponsor several visits to the College to contribute their personal visions to the Living Mural. We are inviting UNM fine arts students—from all disciplines—to work with Visiting Artists as we collectively inspire community youth to move, sing, express and create the Living Mural.

The nature of the Living Mural is similar to that of an organism, it can be layered, and changed; none of us who contribute to the mural will own it individually. Working with the theme of “place,” the Living Mural will be a place for Albuquerque community members to contribute to the art community of UNM. The mural will consist of traces left by each of the muralists. The initial marks of individualism will morph into a collective style of marks on the wall of the most traveled hallway in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico.

This is a CALL TO ALL. We are looking for students from all disciplines. Warm up performance activities will be used to loosen up mural participants while stories and activities with free association will be used to generate imagery for the mural. So, theatre and dance students are a must! Visual art students are needed to work as mentors with community mural participants. And music students are invited to inspire mural painters with their music. Finally, we encourage cross-over between disciplines, so everyone is invited to pick up a brush and paint.

 

Community Service Learning Objectives:
The Living Mural service project is a commitment of 20 hours distributed in the following ways:
- Orientation (2 hrs)
- Pre-Site Visit Arts Planning (2 hrs)
- Site Visit to Community Organization or School (2 hrs)
- Mural Activity – (2) Four Hour Activity Sessions (8 hrs)
- Reflective Synthesis Activity (3 hrs)
- Recognition Roundtable Dinner (3 hrs)

Recognition of Service Awards and Benefits:
- PLACE Program “Certificate of Service” signed by College Dean and Community Education Supervisor
- Project highlights displayed on the CABQ “Downtown Window on the Arts”
- Personal reward of expanding your circle of kindness and friendship
- PLUS, 20 Additional Points toward grant eligibility for Harwood Art Center’s “Expressing Community” Relational Art Project (1 point per 1 hour of Living Mural service). There will be 2 undergraduate student grants ($500 each) and 2 graduate student grants ($750 each) for arts projects based in community about community. For more details, see CALL for “Expressing Community” Proposals on website: http://place.unm.edu/expressing_call.html.

CONTACT:
Christine Cacaus– Project Coordinator - mural@unm.edu
P.L.A.C.E. Program

P.L.A.C.E. means creating a sense of
Partnership Learning through Art, Culture and the Environment