![]() ![]() With all the changes happening to the landscape, this site too is in flux. Following Aisha’s suggestion, the young poet Amanda Gorman – with lines from her poem read on Inauguration Day – was chosen as the subject for his section of the mural. Each artist is working on a different space on the building.Ĭampo is painting the largest span, which faces the intersection. The team of artists include Calm, Flash, Cead, Case 12, Bose, Rong, Heysus, Eyedrawp, and Campo. ![]() Local businesses GreenHAUS Gallery and OpenHAUS, the Alberta Main Street organization and others helped promote the effort to reach the target goal. Faced with 2,500 square feet of surface to paint, Campo turned to to raise funds to buy supplies and pay expenses for participating artists. “Understanding the importance of having an approachable facade, I offered her my services to hire a team of artists to paint her building and boost her visibility,” he reported. With a do-acracy attitude, the multi-disciplined artist Campo, of Campographic Murals & Design, stuck his head in the door and met Aisha Keita building out a thrift store in the former Island Foods Market building at 1436 N.E. Luckily a street artist’s audience is the passerby. For the past year there has been a void in the arts which rely heavily on an audience. It’s time to recharge the community, and our artists and creatives are ready to jump. Artist Campo, of Campographic Murals & Design, saw the exterior as a 2,500-foot canvas. By Maquette Reeverts | Alberta Art Works Aisha Keita saw the makings for a thrift store inside the former Island Foods Market at 1436 N.E. ![]()
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