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Look at the following street art examples and see if you can see “WHAT DOES EACH ART WORK CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT IT RESTS IN”? :
Artist: Steve Hornung
Location: 319 Main Street, Vancouver
This street art was part of a ‘Grey to Green,’ initiative to improve liveability in the alley for local residents and workers, to help beautify the laneway and to increase the perception of safety in what was a very dark, cold, scary laneway.
Artist: FAKE
Title: Super Nurse
Location: Amsterdam
“Hope you are safe and well! I made a sketch of this piece on the night our country got the news that we were all going to have to stay home for a minimum of 3 weeks. It was at this point that I realized things were getting serious, and the healthcare professionals were the ones fighting on the frontline for all of us, having no choice but to expose themselves everyday to patients who have the virus. That inspired me to create “Super Nurse” a tribute to all professional healthcare workers around the world who risk their lives so that the rest of us can be safe, too encourage them in these challenging times, to lift their spirits, and send them love and appreciation.”… FAKE
Artist: Shannon Thiessen
Location: poolside at Aggie Park, Shaughnessy Street, Port Coquitlam
This image is in hope that the healing trend we are currently seeing in our natural world will continue. The reduction of greenhouse gases and noise pollution, orcas returning to previously traversed waters, improved air quality due to a reduction in industry and traffic, will Hopefully bring the sockeye back to the Coquitlam River.
Artist: AMPCO
To turn unsightly Waste bins into entertaining garbage gobblers, and to encourage locals to use them!
Artists: Booth Milton (Lead), Maria Ernie & Brett Box
Location: 496 Prior st, Vancouver
Dimensions: H. 6 feet L. 24 feet
The Monkey Mural is a rather whimsical mural reflecting the name of the company in the building White Monkey Designs. It works to promote the company, but it also works to give off feelings of whimsy and caprice to an otherwise worn looking building. The people in the neighborhood find the playfulness uplifting as they walk by.
Final Project Objective: Tap into your artistic and creative strengths to solve problems in, and contribute to, your community.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: DESIGN YOUR OWN STREET ART WORK OF ART using your own image creations. Find a location in your community THAT WOULD BENEFIT, from street art. Your art needs to connect to the local community. The place you choose can be a wall, a power hub box, a stairway, etc …. It HAS to be a place that is LOCAL to you, a place that is within your community. If you are an International Student then perhaps you might want to use a location in your home town OR you could choose to use a place in the local where you are currently staying here around Riverside. Why would the location that you choose benefit? If you design a street art piece for that location how does it benefit the community around it? What community need does the street art address?
!. Write a one paragraph explanation of The contribution that your street art makes to the local community within which it would be painted. Who does it help? What does it benefit? How is this an important contribution? How does it align directly with the building/structure and/or needs of the community?
You need to design a work SPECIFICALLY for that exact location. It could be on a wall of a building, in an alley, a doorway, or any other architectural part. Perhaps your local coffee shop, skate park…..
Google search out the place that you are targeting, and take a “screen print” of the satellite view of it so that I can see the space. How to look at street view ON GOOGLE MAPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3m_USV5Ig or just physically go there and take a photo!
- Give the exact location by address as well. I want to go see it. Send me the photo/screen shot. THE LOCATION PARAGRAPH (SEE #1) AND THE PHOTO/SCREENSHOT ARE DUE TO ME THROUGH EMAIL **THIS TUESDAY, APRIL 28***
Note the proportions of the space – is it wider than it is high? Or higher than wide? Guess at the proportions ration– two to one? Three to one? Does it wrap around a side? Is there a doorway or stair railing or power post in it that needs to be incorporated into the design? You need a “before” photo (the google satellite view, or just go there and take the photo) of it to guide you in this.
3.Tape together several pages of your sketchbook to make a large piece of paper IN THE SAME PROPORTIONS as the space you have targeted. You want your art work to be bigger than your sketchbook, but OF COURSE not as big as the real building !@ Say, approximately 18 inches high by 24 “ish” inches wide. A big artwork ensures a full composition. But those measurements are just a guide for how big you might make it. Remember to make your paper IN THE PROPORTIONS OF THE WALL OR SPACE THAT YOU HAVE TARGETTED.
4.Create your street art work of art. It should be drawn with pencil, edited for fullness and points of high interest, then lines and shapes refined, and then finelined (if desired), and then coloured (which includes “black and white”). Your colour choices need to be specific, using a colour scheme, not random colours. The final product must present professionally, NOT a rough sketch! Please use sharpies, pencil crayons or paints to “finish” the art work.
5.Check the Criteria for Assessment, below for specifics on each point of assessment. Complete the self-assessment below when art is complete:
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MAJOR PROJECT = MAJOR MARKS ***THIS PROJECT IS DUE IN ITS ENTIRETY, COMPLETE WITH SELF ASSESSMENT ON MONDAY, MAY 4****