Parkway Theatre Mural Project

Grand Unveiling Sept. 11th

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MCAD and the Parkway Theatre will celebrate the murals and films made by graduated seniors at the Theatre on September 11th at 6:30pm. Come for great Mexican food & drinks and see what MCAD students are creating! 48th and Chicago Avenue South.

Finished!

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The four murals are now installed and ready to be enjoyed by the Parkway Theatre-going community. Stop by and see them!

Photos of Working and Progress

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first draft of statement for Morrison show; please comment.

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Under the Same Sun
Collaborative mural series at the Parkway Theatre
by Elissa Cedarleaf-Dahl’s Special Topics: Site Works class

Our class began by researching community murals and speaking with Joe Minjares, who prides himself as the Minnecano who created Pepitos and is restoring the Parkway Theatre. He wanted us to create four mural panels for the Parkway Theatre that reflect the events, atmosphere, and community that goes on at the Parkway, but he wanted us to decide upon the content. The vibrant Parkway Theatre hosts such varied events as poetry slams, parties, live music, and shows independent and international films. The theatre also has a rich history, as it has survived since the 1930’s and showcases a strong period Art Deco flair to its interior.
We had a series of discussions to arrive upon subject matter that we felt represented the spirit and happenings of the Parkway, and came upon four subjects: film, dance, a fiesta, and music (these eventually streamlined, evolved and changed; this is described below). From there, groups were determined to work on individual elements such as patterning, central figures, color palette, and environment to work through the collaborative design process. Edits were made and so was the decision to streamline and Deco-ize the illusionistic designs, to better fit with the environment of the Parkway.
The final panels depict scenes of a jazz singer and a pianist; a film crew, including a 1930’s camera (echoing the vintage projector showcased in the front lobby of the Parkway); two salsa dancers; and a group of musicians, including a mariachi fiddler and an accordionist. These panels depict the exuberant creative atmosphere of the Parkway, and the rich multiculturalism of the surrounding Minnehaha Creek neighborhood.
The photos document the Site Works class tackling the task of painting the gigantic pieces of canvas in front of us. Groups of us stretched the canvas, gessoed it, mixed colors, and transferred the images. Painting murals is challenging and rewarding work; challenging because it requires a great deal of interpersonal coordination and planning to deal with such a large task, and rewarding because of the collaborative energy and community-based approach.
You are welcome to come and see our work, either in-progress or when the murals are unveiled on the week of Cinco de Mayo! The documentation will not give you the full story; we want you to see the murals for yourself. The New Parkway Theatre (more info: http://theparkwaytheatre.com/) is located at 48th and Chicago. It is one of the last remaining single-screen, independently-owned theatres in the Twin Cities, prices remain low, and amazing films are constantly being shown, including a current series of screwball comedies from the Great Depression. We hope that the work we do here as students will remain a long-lasting contribution to the vital neighborhood arts center that is the Parkway Theatre.

Participants in Site Works project are:
Ashley Buxbaum
Jake Dwyer
Gregory Ganeles
Sarah Hedlund
Allegra Lockstadt
Vicky Martinez
Ed Moorman
Carolina Nulatienpo
Nicole Vanche

Documentation: Painting day one.

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Documentation.

**click on the thumbs to enlarge**

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final singer

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Here is the final dance panel

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Color versions

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Here are the latest color versions of the 4 panels. We have to re-draw the singer panel as it is not square (thus the big vertical blue line). Comments?

Musician Panel: final line work to be projected

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More Dance Panels

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Here are some more dance color samples... I tried to go warmer on them i think that it's more cohesive

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outline for film on temp storage

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Hi I got the outlining done for the film panel and it is saved on the temp storage on the first computer on the left in the library. If you need it to do color that is where it should be here is what it looks like.
sarah

Music Panel with Color

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This color is not concrete so feel free to make suggestions or make changes, but i tried to stick to the same palette as Sarah's piece since they are portraying the same environment/theater.

color samples - dance panel

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Hey here are some color mock ups based off the pallete and a couple of art deco references, I'll be making more!

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well these were the colorings i did before they had the color pallete, i think some of them are simular maybe. I also stink at color so : / meh.

dance color

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These were my shots at color for the dance panel. I think the one with the woman in the red dress with the man wearing blue jeans looks better.

Film Panel

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Here is the film panel that I sent Joe today. We'll see what he says. what do you think?

Colour Palettes from Sarah's image and reference

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Here are the final color palletes derived from Sarah's Image and our reference image. Feel free to use the eye dropper tool and also use the 6 digit code. Thanks

Singer- color pallete

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Done by Sarah

Music Linework Final

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Color palette

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Here is an image we found that we modeled the color palette after!

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Dance Final 1
Dance Final 2

FINISHED FINALLY! I wasn't sure about that feather overlapping on their legs so I did 2 images. Anyways... colour away!

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Film idea, DANCE AND PARTY PANEL

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Last weekend I found this projector and thought this may be a good angle for the Film panel.

We could include a silhouette of the grandfather and grandchild with popcorn and have a 30's movie playing on the screen.

If you are looking for something to do for Thursday, bring some images of scenes from famous 30's movies and/or have a shot at redrawing the figures in the film panel.

Also: Let's let the Dance and Party panel rest as-is. I have some drawings to show everyone based on the group's ideas, drawings and conversations with Joe.

See you soon!

2008-02-26T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here is the final sketch for the frames. Don, the top-notch shop tech, suggested wood instead of metal since it would cost more and be REALLY heavy. The only areas we need metal are for the corners and the middle, since we plan to take the frames apart after every painting session. I called Stuart Lumber and Discount steal. The price for the wood is $216.50 for twenty four pieces of two by eights, and each piece of metal is $12. We thought we needed twenty four pieces, but Discount Steel sells each piece by the foot. I'll ask Don exactly how much we need since we might end up buying more metal than we need. Either way, It wouldn't hurt to buy a few extra materials just in case we mess up during the first try. I can't wait to start making these frames! Ok, goodnight.

Deco-ized elements

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I changed, as per Elissa's request, the tree and the details on the houses to make them simpler, more Art Deco, more geometric. Anyone please e-mail me if you want these files to screw with or try colors or say "what was he thinking?" or anything -- s'all good.

More details about Joe's feedback

2008-02-26T05:31:00.001-08:00

Hello everyone!

Please read asap.

I was able to meet with Joe last night to discuss the feedback he has gotten from customers about our mural designs. Similar to my email to you all on Friday morning, he says people find the murals too realistic and busy. He feels as though he asked us to include a million elements and that is why they have come out busier than desired. He wants to remind us that we are on our way to something and that what you have done so far is very good, but needs tweaking. I agree.

I have been checking the blog to see what work has been done so far this week and I know it is difficult to work this way especially when Joe came back with a majority of his comments after out class meeting with him. But, these are how things go.

The words for the week are: SIMPLIFY and DECO/AZTEC.

We need to take what we have done and push it into more of a Deco/Aztec style with geometric flair and lessen the realism.

Nicole posted border designs that are more in sync with the architecture. Make sure you check them out. I will bring a bunch of printed copies of those borders to class on Thurs.

Jake has been redrawing and coming up with some new lay-outs. I really like the new dancing pair on the bottom and would love to see these drawn/colored in more of an Art deco style. The new band guys are great and more stylized but still too busy, I am afraid. I think we should work with this image:

There could be some great Deco lines made by the floor lighting. I would like to see some of Sarah's musicians added into this scene.

I asked Ed to submit some Art Deco images and really simplify the backgrounds in the panels. I WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO BRING COLOR ART DECO or AZTEC IMAGERY TO CLASS ON THURSDAY- grab some books from the library and mark pages that have similar imagery to our murals.

If you didn't read my email on Friday, the Gesso team is now available to help the Color and Design teams. I have a revised plan for gessoing that will be quicker and we can do as a class.

Greg and Carol: Would you bring imagery of famous black and white movie scenes to Thursday's class? I will email back the same of the movies Joe mentioned. I would look for scenes that were simple and included a woman.

Ok, everyone. Keep working hard. Thursday's class with be another big cut-n-paste drawing and coloring session, so bring whatever supplies you like to use as well as everything you have drawn for the mural up to this point.

Thanks!
Elissa

Music Panel: Simpler Style

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So this is quite a few figures, but it still has strong symmetry and stability as a compostion. I'll see how it works in a square with a border. I used as few lines as i could to describe the forms, as was the case with deco figurative works. They are stylized in a way that could be rendered pretty flat i think, but still, they are drawn well enough to maintain spatial relationships and one point perspective. I might play with color a bit too, but the color group could do some experimenting with these.

Joe says: Art Deco-it up

2008-02-25T18:27:00.000-08:00

Okay, so as per Joe's request, we need to Art Deco-up the panels. Elissa asked me to take the houses in the Dance panel and the tree in the Party panel and Deco-ize (not redraw exactly, but take what we have and play with) them.

I will do this tonight and post what I have tomorrow (Tuesday).

Here are some examples of Art Deco images. We want simplified, stylized, more geometric, less realistic -- to match the style of the Parkway. Bold, "masculine" linework was requested. Cleaner, more silhouetted imagery.

Photoshoped Dancers...

2008-02-25T08:23:00.000-08:00

I did some quick photoshop work and for the dance sketch... Jake all of these figure sketches are amazing, thanks for doing them... I'll see if I can get some work and ideas done on the film panel and perhaps a couple of others. These are just composition ideas. It's pretty similiar to the last version we had.

Film panel

2008-02-24T22:06:00.000-08:00

I got no ideas of how to push forward with the film panel. I also haven't really done much sketching for it which is probly why. I'll try to do some drawings for it tomorrow but any written or drawn suggestions on which i could elaborate would be much appreciated.

On-Stage Musicians

2008-02-24T21:55:00.000-08:00

These are a few onstage sketches that are using viewpoint to adjust to what Joe said in the meeting - "try to tell the story in a less direct way." Working at all? They are definitely less direct and stable, but i didn't like the idea of including the actual parkway theater audience within the composition. Please comment so i can keep goin with some direction. Or feel free to pull these drawings into photoshop and play with composition if you have time, or post some drawings in response.

Musicians Tuning & Rehearsing

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Backstage approach? They are loose drawings but they were some of the ones that started to do something new in my opinion.

Street Musicians?

2008-02-24T21:47:00.001-08:00

Joe mentioned the idea of placing the music panel outdoors like the dance scene. This is still very straight forward like the original music panel designed by sarah, but these figures are more informal and could be placed in the midst of a casual audience on sidewalk. Not sure if this is the right direction to go...

Correction

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All of my comments on the dance gestures i posted are in regards to the bottom lower of the two drawings. Top one is less likely to work.

New Possibilities for Dance Figures

2008-02-24T21:36:00.000-08:00

Here are some new possibilities for the foreground adult figures in the dance panel. Joe was mostly concerned with getting a more lively gesture in the male figure, and more contemporary clothing on both figures, possibly a scarf for the female. With that in mind i think the male with bent knees and guayabera shirt is the most effective. For the female we could always just adjust the figure that is currently in the panel if this one isn't doing any thing new for it. I think this female figure has a stronger art deco style though. The second drawing is probably not going to work in the composition too well but if you all should comment and let me know.

pictures

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there are some of the back angle of the projector, some of the theatre, designs on the walls and chairs, and then there is a few of joe checking out our images from last week. In one of them he's smiling alot : D

**click on them to enlarge**

Re: Borders and pattern

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I like the way that the broad shapes in these borders have been organized (defenitely on the right track), but part of what is going to push both/either the art deco and aztec feel is richly decorative and referential patterns. If we are simplifying the figures and coloring, we should see that as an opportunity to complicate the patterning a bit more. From a personal standpoint, I think most of the patterning we have settled on up to this point has been rather unambitious (no disrespect intended to anyone's abilities). If many of the people in this class, as has been shown up to this point, are not that comfortable dealing with the human figure, then we gotta find ways for those said individuals to be involved, beyond just coloring in other peoples drawings. I'll post what i have a little later tonight, but I think some detail in terms of patterns would be a good place for the new additions to the design "team" to start. Think about how it's gonna translate to the painting process too, because thinking about what we showed joe, wood grain and curtains as predominant border features, those textures would not be easy to paint by any means (probably the hardest thing to render effectively in the whole compostion). Cool. I'll post some new figure drawings lata tonight.

5th and 6th design

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5th

6th

4th design

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3rd idea?

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another one based off architecture

2nd border?

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2nd border idea

one border?

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From what the teacher and the client are asking for with the new changes from the email is more architecture and historical designs. I think I'm on the right track here not sure, I'm going back to previous designs from the first few weeks were I was mostly focusing on the architecture.

The circle at the top of this image would hold the sun symbol. I didnt draw it in because I Dont feel confident on drawing it free hand on the computer. I dont know how to use the pen tool. But here is a digital re-done image from it.

Let me know if this is what were going for. I'll try to do a few more after this.
**click to enlarge**

Art Deco Push

2008-02-22T06:59:00.001-08:00

Hello class,

I just got an email from Joe that he wrote at 2am last night.

He is asking that as we redraw the designs we reconsider the style of the theatre.
He says, "We need to get back to the deco, Mayan architecture. That's what should
frame the work. To me, what gets lost are the deco lines of the theater. The dark,
angular mood clashes with the realistic scenes of the murals."

I will call him to get more details soon but for now, let's consider this.

The border designs weren't completely done and I will explain out ideas to him as
well as point out how we went with the design on the chairs for the skeleton of the
borders. I do think we need to add elements of the initial Aztec/Deco border
designs we came up with into the borders. We could pull away from the fabric/curtain
references and go with more masculine deco lines.

I think we can also push some bolder lines in the figure scenes to pull away a bit
from the realism and echo the directness of the lines in the theatre architecture.
I don't want to entirely change our four figure panels- I want to show him how they
can still aesthetically combine with the deco/Mayan/Aztec architecture and have a
thematic impact/message.

Since we can't go anywhere without the design in place, I am going to ask that
CAROL, ED and GREG join the Design team with Nicole and Jake. (We can figure out a
new gesso plan in class next week)

I would also encourage the color team to pull away from realism and work on bolder
(not necessarily brighter), more definitive color choices. See Art Deco painting
for ideas.

So here is where we are at:

The borders and patterning are key to achieving what he is asking for. There are
Mayan/Aztec books on class reserve still in the library. Let's pull away a bit from
the Nouveau and push the Deco.

Backgrounds that are to be drawn (film, music) can be done in a bolder, more
stylized way.

Color should have more line work and Deco flair.

I will send another email soon with more details.

Hang in there everyone! We want him to love these!

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clouds

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the party mural with houses might look good if some clouds were added in the sky

party

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here is the party mural with a background. one has houses and the other has houses and trees. i think the one with just houses looks better maybe? i think trees seem "natural" in the image and it might look better once it is colored.

i dont know

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I dont know what I'm supposed to do or whats going on.
I did a quick sketch of something before. Then I heard others were working on the film panel. Then there was a sketch, so I really dont know, I put together the sketch and the border and just gave it a ground line because I wasnt sure what the background was.

Film Panel

2008-02-20T17:20:00.000-08:00

So what's good with the film panel? Not to be a nuisance or anything i'm just anxious. A post by tonight or tomorrow morning would be comoforting since we're showin them to joe in the afternoon. Even if it's unfinished, i could work on it in the morning if someone posts it tonight, as i'm gonna be putting together some new borders for the panels me and greg did (though i really like the dynamic quality of the curved borders in both of them). Communicate yo.

Color for music panel

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Dance Panel

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Here is the dance panel, sorry my post this afternoon apparently didn't work. I haven't re-done the border yet but it seems greg didnt do a new border either, so I'll come up with some options for both the party and dance panels by Thursday for sure, but possibly by tomorrow. Word up.

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Colour palletes and some colour decisions

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Hey everyone, last night the colour group met and finalized some palletes, here's what we're thinking:

We were also thinking about making each panel having a main colour (within the border) and the border color that also acts as a spot color. For example, in the music/insturment panel, the primary color is red; most of the image in the background is red and the border/spot color is a green meaning that the border and the figures are primarily greens and blues. This creates seperation from the background and will also make a cohesiveness through the amount of colours use on each panel. Here's what we're thinking:

Insturment/band panel: main colour - red and border/spot colour - green/green-blue/blues
Dance panel: main colour - golden yellow and border/spot colour - warm purples and pinks
Party/pinata panel - main colour - greens, light blue and border/spot colour - pinks, red and blues
Film panel - main colour- blue and violet hues and border/spot color- light blue/golden yellow

I hope that I explained this alright, once sarah posts our final image for the band/insturment panel you'll see what we're talking about. We think that this will make colour choices easier and more reliable since they are based on compliments. We'll be posting more examples soon.

Also, I drew up a quick figure for the film panel and I think that Vicky and ashley are working with it to revamp the film panel:

-Allegra for the colour group

party mural

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previous border sketches

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i was requested to put up the border sketches up here. about 4 of them didnt turn out so well. so on thursday if you'd like me to bring the sketches let me know.

***click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images***

film

2008-02-18T22:31:00.000-08:00

what we have here is the old picture with some of the lines touched up.

And then we have this sketch thing that I redrew the whole thing, tried to keep some of eds elements in it.

I honestly do not have time to sit back and redo this whole thing. Maybe since this was Ed's picture in the first place he could take some of the elements the new one or his old one and work on it.

as suggested I'm going to be posting up some of the border images incase we need to fill in missing areas in border work. But that will be in a 2nd post.

**click on the image to see the whole thing better**

(if anyone needs files email me)

.TROUBLE.

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Dear classmates,

The color team is having trouble with the film panel.

We feel that there needs to be more details in the camera and also the background. There needs to be more definition or else it will look boring on a scale this large. Also, we feel that the simplicity of the panel makes it look incohesive compared to the other panels. The figures are more animated than realistic as the other panels are. We too feel that the whole composition should be shifted to the left because there is too much empty space and not enough focus on the figure/camera.

Should we draw a NEW one, or continue to revise this one?

.Thursday.

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Here's one of my COLOR team members working.

party

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the party mural is almost finished, will be posted soon.

party

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the party mural is almost finished, will be posted soon.

Title???

2008-02-14T16:26:00.000-08:00

Hello all,

we need a title for the mural.

Thoughts?
Please brainstorm in the comments section.

WRITTEN PROPOSAL BY CAROL AND ED.

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MURAL TITLE (?)

(tentative sub-titles)
Film
Party
Dance
Music

by Elissa Cederleaf-Dahl’s Special Topics: Site Works – Parkway Theatre class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
14 January – 6 May 2008

Ashley Buxbaum
Jake Dwyer
Greg Ganeles
Sarah Hedlund
Allegra Lockstadt
Vicky Martinez
Ed Moorman
Carolina Nulatienpo
Nicole Vanche

When we met with Joe Minjares, he told us the story of his life as a Minnecano, Pepitos, and the Parkway Theatre. He talked about the values that he felt to be central to both him and the community: family, pride, and community.
We wanted the setting of each panel of the mural to be either the Parkway Theatre or the Minnehaha Creek neighborhood. In each panel, there are people from different generations and ethnicities; in the Film panel, we see an elderly man showing his granddaughter (who are of different ethnic backgrounds) the 1930’s film projector showcased in the lobby of the Parkway.
Each of the panels depicts people celebrating together as a family, either as relatives, or neighbors, as shown in the Party panel. They all reflect Minnesota, Mexico, and blending of Old and New Worlds; in the Dance panel, we see adults doing a traditional Mexican hat dance with children playing in contemporary clothes. We made sure that these panels reflected cultural pride by having many people from many cultures celebrating themselves and each other; in the Music panel, each person is playing an instrument specific to their culture – a Mexican Mariachi violinist, a Swedish accordion player, and an African-American jazz saxophonist.

Joe gave us total freedom with the specific subject matter, encouraging us to include our own cultural symbols.
In the first phase of the process we began by learning the history of Mexican muralists including Los Tres Grandes; we brainstormed for themes; and we researched related imagery. We did sketches, including Aztec, Mayan, native Mexican and Art Deco-derived patterns and elements to complement the Parkway’s 1930’s architecture. In the second phase, sub-groups focused on patterns, backgrounds, and central figurative imagery; this allowed us to work according to our individual strengths. Following that, we held a series of group discussions to decide what material would be the most successful and relevant. In the last phase we looked at finalized images from each sub-ground and collaged them together.

The music Mural

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tile

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Notes from 2/7

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images that excite me

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Oh man dude, look at this guy, he's SERIOUS... This is an image of a mariachi band, just from Wikipedia, playing the Guadalajara festival. The guy front and center just KNOWS it.

One of the mandates of Joe was that the image had to be sexy and seductive. There's nothing saying that that means only women. Mariachi music is obviously very passionate and I think it's important to convey that. I can only begin to try to capture that dude's personality, his gesture, his expression... damn, I'm not that cool.

Also, flanking him with two other musicians (with scale shifts) I thought pushed him to the forefront and allowed for contrast and variety.

This image was labeled "Armida, Don Terry 1930." I have yet to find out what film it is from (if you know, please tell me). This image will be part of the basis for the "film" figures -- the idea is for the background to feature the artisans working, the boom mic, the cinematography, all that.
Again, very sensual and alluring.

We couldn't see any place for this image (top view, dancers bodies are blurred), but it's still a cool picture.

For the dance image, we thought that Jake's take on a John Singer Sargeant image / Mexican dress and hairstyle and patterning / Allegra's images of dancers would be really awesome.

For the fiesta / party image, we were talking about making an image of children with a pinata.

Also, I'll be performing poetry with 5 other poets this weekend at the Parkway. yikes! first time reading. 21+. Sat., Feb. 9 at 10PM.

Team drawings

2008-02-05T19:31:00.000-08:00

We divided the second round of drawings into groups according to interest and expertise and chose four themes for the murals: Film, Dance, Instrumental Music and Party.

Patterning and Borders:
Carol
Vicky
Nicole

Mid/Backgrounds:
Greg
Ashley

Front Figures:
Allegra
Ed
Sarah
Jake

Figure Group Meeting

2008-02-05T18:51:00.000-08:00

We've just had our group meeting and came up with this: We're going to split the categories up and assign one to each person:
Sarah- Music
Ed- Film
Jake- Party/Food
Allegra- Dance

We're going to each focus on one section and make sketches.

Some may be on the blog soon!

Central American Photos

2008-01-27T15:35:00.000-08:00

These are some cultural photos from my trips to Guatemala and Mexico- D.F., Oaxaca and Puebla.

BEFORE pics of the Parkway

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Some BEFORE photos of the Parkway.

Parkway Theatre Mural

2008-01-24T09:51:00.000-08:00

This is a class blog that show the progression of a mural project between the Parkway Theatre in South Minneapolis and students of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. So far we are in our begining stages of desgin and have just had our first meeting with the owner. We were asked to create 4 large scale murals inside the movie theater. Suggestions the owner Joe had were to keep in mind the architecture of the theartre that sets itself in the Art Deco realm. Joe also wishes to incorporate his mexican culture not in a stereotypical way and not in association to the resturaunt he owns next door. All in all, this will be a very dynamic collaborative project between students and the community and we couldn't be more excited about this experience and the challenges it will bring!