{"id":19943,"date":"2017-07-31T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=19943"},"modified":"2017-07-31T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T16:08:38","slug":"the-welcome-wall-mural-at-broadway-and-fillmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2017\/07\/the-welcome-wall-mural-at-broadway-and-fillmore\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Welcome Wall” Mural at Broadway and Fillmore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cWelcome Wall\u201d Mural at Broadway and Fillmore was completed over a week ago. I wanted to share some history about the project and the artists behind. The mural itself is part of a public art initiative by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

From Albright-Knox<\/a>:<\/p>\n

751 Fillmore Avenue (Get Directions<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Formerly the location of the Copacabana Jazz Club, 751 Fillmore Avenue has sat vacant for over a decade near the intersection of Broadway and Fillmore on Buffalo\u2019s East Side. In 2016, the building\u2019s new owners in partnership with the Broadway Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services (BFNHS) and Fillmore District Common Council Member David Franczyk conceived of the idea for a mural that would incorporate the word \u201cwelcome\u201d in the 13 languages BFNHS outreach identified as representative of this diverse neighborhood: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, German, Polish, Seneca, Spanish, Somali, Urdu, and Vietnamese. At the invitation of the BFNHS and a number of stakeholders in the neighborhood, the Albright-Knox\u00a0Public Art Initiative<\/a>\u00a0and additional community representatives identified Philadelphia-based artists Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez to help make this vision a reality.<\/p>\n

Johnson and Martinez solicited community participation in both the design and execution of this mural through a series of public meetings and\u00a0public paint days<\/a>. The artists created the work using sheets of Polytab, a nonwoven material also known as \u201cparachute cloth,\u201d which was then patched together like wallpaper to create a seamless installation. The flexibility of the material made\u00a0it possible to work on the mural indoors and allowed Johnson and Martinez to bring the artmaking process out into the community. Each section of Polytab was marked in advance by the artists with an outline of the design, a kind of \u201cpaint-by-numbers\u201d format that allowed individuals of all skill levels to come together and participate on the project simultaneously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mural is beautiful.<\/p>\n

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