MOREart! Multicultural OutReach Effort: A Project to Promote Cultural and Community Harmony Through Art Home Members MOREart! Events

MOREart! in the news!

Our Town Getting Us Together, Opinion Page, The Free Lance-Star, July 27, 2007

All Hands Work Together to Wrap up Mosaic Mural, The Free Lance-Star, June 22, 2007

WALL WORK - Many Take Part in Art Project, The Free Lance-Star, June 21, 2007

ALL HANDS IN - Art Project Comes to Life, The Free Lance-Star, June 20, 2007

Mosaic Mural Promotes Understanding, The Free Lance-Star, June 17, 2007

City Mural Project Promotes Diversity, The Free Lance-Star, April 28, 2007

Making Art and History, The Free Lance-Star, February 18, 2007

 

A dynamic multimedia presentation about this project (featuring video, sound, photos, stories, etc.) is archived permanently on the Free Lance-Star website:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/video/flash/2007/0625moreart/index.html

To see a photo journal of the project in action, click here. Photos by Suzanne Carr Rossi, Free Lance-Star newspaper.

MOREart! is looking for sponsors. If you would like to donate to this community enriching, history-making project, please contact us.

Click here to see a list of our MOREart! sponsors

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE MOREart! DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY MOSAIC MURAL PROJECT:

This community project is an initiative by the MORE organization to celebrate diversity and promote cultural and racial harmony through creative, artistic expression.

Various pieces and fragments of different materials, colors, textures and cultures will be combined to create a beautiful and unified mosaic mural which symbolically embodies the mission of MORE.

Below is the artist’s rendering of the proposed Mosaic Mural: designed for installation on the side wall of the Roxbury Farm & Garden Center warehouse (back entrance warehouse facing Jackson Street). The garden theme compliments the physical site location, and visually enhances the affirming message of MORE: to plant seeds of hope, to nurture diversity, and cultivate harmony.

This mosaic mural is a symbolic icon of working together, and embracing multicultural unity.

Design and Installation will be done by Art Coordinators Suzanne Moe and Andrea Shreve Taylor and the Youth MOREart! Team.

 

Artist's rendering of the proposed community mosaic mural

 

ROUGH TIMELINE:

  • December 2006: Applications turned in and reviewed by the MOREart! youth selection committee

  • January 26, 2007: Final selection of youth team members will be determined, youth will be notified

  • February 17: First team meeting! Introductions, project overview, and group discussion.

  • February 21-May 30: Team meetings will be held weekly. Project timeline will be reviewed and discussed in detail by coordinators.Various components of the mural will be designed in stages and executed indoors.

  • June 18-22nd: On-site mural installation: active direct application (weather permitting)

  • July 6, 2007: Grand Unveiling Ceremony/Party (First Friday): Public community event involving news media, entertainment, speakers & celebration!