Join us for the next Mural Arts Program community meeting here in Frankford!
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Frankford Mural Locations Set
At the Imagining Frankford meeting at Campbell AME church on Tuesday April 17th, the locations for the Frankford murals were announced. There are five locations that will be used. At the Southern gateway to Frankford the locations are 4229-39 Frankford AVenue, 4248 Frankford Avenue and 4122-50 Kensington Avenue. Further up the locations will be at 4426-28 Frankford Avenue and 4935 Frankford Avenue. These locations were chosen for visibility from both street level and El level. Consideration had to be given to the suitability of the wall surface.
Cesar Viveros is the lead artist and he has listened to the community over the last 6 months talk about Frankford. He presented his design concept last night which will attempt to incorporate what he has heard. It starts with the heart of Frankford which translates into Community, Family, History, Pride and Potential. His task is to now express those elements into murals. He presented some of his initial design concepts and I have reproduced only three of them here. Click on the image for a full size view.
From here the designs will be finalized and then go into production between June and September. There will be community paint days where people will be invited into the studio to participate in the process. The process will be complete in September/October.
There will be another meeting on Saturday April 21st from 1 to 2:30 PM at Campbell AME church at 1657 Kinsey St. The public is invited to come out and see what is happening.
Imagining Frankford Mural Design Meetings
A pair of meetings to collaborate on the design of the Frankford Murals is scheduled for April 17th and 21st. See below:
Mural Arts Project Reaches Milestone
Cesar Viveros and Netanel Portier were at the Historical Society of Frankford on Sunday, the 29th, for the last group of video interviews of Frankford residents. They have now completed over forty sit down interviews with people from every area of Frankford expressing their feelings, hopes, dreams, memories, aspirations and desires of and for Frankford. They have done a fantastic job in reaching out to as many people as they could because they want our input into this project.
Cesar Viveros interviews Sophia Lewis
The interviews are source material for the artistic vision of Cesar as he begins to compile what will make up the eight murals that will line the Frankford Avenue corridor. The interviews will be edited and produced into a single video which will debut at the Historical Society on a date to be announced. The videos will also become available on a YouTube page about the same time.
We’ll be following along with the project as it moves into the actual production of the murals and hope to document the process as it moves along. Coincidentally the murals should be finished by the time we celebrate the 90 anniversary of the opening of the Frankford El this November.
It’s a good time to be in Frankford.
Mural Arts Program Meeting Tonight
This is a quick reminder of our second mural planning meeting which will be taking place tomorrow, Thursday, at 6 p.m. at Denby’s Sweet Sensations, 4428 Frankford Avenue.
We had a very productive meeting last week, so I’d also like to thank everyone who made it to our first meeting, and thank again Therice for her sensational sweets.
Highlights from last week:
We did some brainstorming in groups on three concepts and then identified the ideas that were most important to everyone. Here are those most important:
Concept 1: What do you treasure in/about Frankford?
– History
– Positive Role Models
– Diversity (socioeconomics, ages, education, etc.)
– Untapped Potential
– Green Space
– Hope
Concept 2: What are the challenges that Frankford faces?
– Unemployment (may be connected: drugs, crime)
– Crime Issues
– Communication
– Restoration of strong traditions (parades, local school)
– Negative Perception
– Education
– Role Models (lack of)
Concept 3: Advice to the artist
The top two ideas that all three groups mentioned were:
– Frankford lives on the streets–walk around, meet and get to know the residents
– Work with the youth of Frankford
This week:
We will be working with some new brainstorming concepts, connected to last week’s outcomes. Thank you so much for your dedication to your community! We really look forward to continuing our exploration with you. hope you all can urge others to join us,
Netanel Portier (formerly Eliezer)
Project Manager
