Johalla Teams Up With Sixty Inches From Center
Johalla Projects is excited to once again team up with our good friends over at Sixty Inches From Center (SIFC), the renowned, Chicago-based arts archive and collective.
This time, we’re working with SIFC to help restore a public mural by artists Nick Adam and Thor that was originally begun in October of 2009 at the Logan Square Blue Line stop. The mural, entitled “Home,” uniquely serves as a visual expansion of the home that extends to the neighborhood.It raises awareness and is a reminder that our public space is where we live as well. It is a welcome-mat inviting life, love, growth, investment, respect, and care. It’s these characteristics of home that lend themselves towards thriving and prosperous communities. After all, we think that public art should translate to anyone that experiences it, so the creative vision for this project is for the artists to compose a combination of literal and abstract representations that play on the sentiment of “home”.
However, on its last day of installment a large storm hit and destroyed the mural up to its installation point. Because of this tragic event, some of the initial sponsors had to withdraw funding due to the lack of promotions.
SO, with the fabulous help of Sixty Inches From Center and Alderman Rey Colon, we are IMMENSELY enthusiastic about raising the remaining funds needed to complete the mural at a soon-to-be-announced fundraiser!
So, please stay tuned and keep your eyes and ears open for an upcoming event…We’ll be back soon to give you more information and hope you can join us!
Like this:
“Urban Dwellers” in RedEye
Urban Dwellers was featured in RedEye’s “Deer & Sparkles: New public art pops up.” Check it out!
Like this:
“What can Wicker Park expect in 2011?”
Our murals get a mention in Redeye’s What can Wicker Park expect in 2011? by Ruthie Kott. Check it out here.
Mural Projects
Once the weather gets warmer we’ll be continuing work on our murals, more details to be released later this March.
Don’t forget this great stop motion animation by Alexis Rose about our mural projects from last year.
