2153 - Mural Painting

Course Overview

Murals are a universal language; they make a connection as a cultural gallery that illustrates how a community develops. Murals bring awareness to community about diversity and how we live simultaneously, sharing multiple cultures.

This studio arts course introduces and involves students in painting a large-scale collaborative community mural project. Participants will study local murals/muralists and their contribution to beautifying public spaces. We'll work collaboratively to generate ideas, plan preliminary mural sketches, design compositions, research cultural symbolism, scale images and paint a large-scale collaborative community painting.
Students will participate in a Mural Design Workshop and after completion will be eligible to paint a 6'x30' mural on location at UNM Continuing Education.

Participants in this class will have the opportunity to contribute to beautifying the Continuing Education campus -- creating a physical work that they will be able to visit and look back on. They will learn the basic fundamentals of creating a mural, while also discussing the social/local implications of making work that is for the general public.

We will discuss local and personal histories, creating a collaborative series of images that can be a document of our time together, and this specific moment in history.

What You'll Learn

• Discuss how murals can be used to create social change, as well as explore the use of themes such as humanity, community, personal and cultural identity.
• identify local murals/muralists and their contribution to beautifying public spaces
• Work collaboratively to create a design that speaks to personal and local histories
• Collaborate and generate ideas, plan a mural to scale, research, learn use of materials and tools, paint preparation, and paint application techniques.
• Translate words and concepts into stylized imagery
• Identify the mural process from sketch to final
• Understand what materials are needed to create an outdoor mural that will last in multiple weather elements

Who Should Attend

Students should take this course if they are interested in monumental acrylic painting, community arts, and collaboration as a way to make something bigger and better than if you were to tackle it alone.

The course is offered to participants ages 18 and above.

Additional Information

Materials List
1 - 18"x24" 70lb sketch pad for dry media ( “Artist Loft” brand sketch pad is ok )
1 – Canson Foundation Tracing paper pad for ink pencil marker 9"x12" 25lb
1 – Tombow HB drawing pencil
1 - Staedtler Mars Plastic eraser, White/rectangular
1 – Staedtler Metal Sharpener double hole for pencils and colored pencils 1 – Lightweight Aluminum T-Square Ruler Size: 24" (measurements printed on t-square) 1 – 10 inch - 30/60/90 plastic drafting triangle
1 – set Crayola colored pencils 12 or 24 pack
1 – roll blue painters tape 1" wide

Please Note! If you cannot find any of the above listed materials or in doubt of what to purchase, please do not substitute; bring only what you are able to find and we will discuss at the first class.

Materials are available at: Amazon, Michaels