The public is invited to help paint murals at the Bill Bailey Community Center in Belle Glade as part of the Art of Community Day event on Thursday, Sept. 18 from 4 to 7 p.m.
The mural panels will be installed on the Bill Bailey Community Center’s south wall at 1101 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Belle Glade.
All ages are welcome, and art experience is not necessary to participate in this fun-filled event. Participants are encouraged to wear painting attire and closed-toed sneakers or shoes.
The mural project is sponsored by the Palm Beach County Commission. The county’s Art in Public Places program is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County’s after-school program and the Solid Waste Authority’s recycled paint program to create 20 murals.
The mural project will be facilitated by professional muralist and teaching artist Sharon Koskoff.
Over the course of four weeks, in addition to the Art of Community Day event, Koskoff will work with Boys & Girls Clubs’ youth to create large-scale community self portraits, or “Body Graphix” murals.
Through the program, youth will gain experience in the artistic process of public mural painting and learn about color, design, scale, as well as teamwork, group effort and social history.
Participants will also document the project through daily journaling with writings and sketches. “It is extremely exciting to be involved in the process of transforming a blank canvas into a successful and significant work of art,” Koskoff said.
The new murals are part of a comprehensive renewal project of the Bill Bailey Center, and they replace original murals created in 2002 by Glades-area students and teachers.
All who participated in creating the 2002 murals are extended a special invitation to help with the new mural project.
