Asheville Mural Project

Staff reports

The Asheville Mural Project has wrapped up work after a busy late winter and early spring, having planted many seeds for future projects while finishing existing ones.

The group completed the installation of its Black History Month project at Eagle and Market Streets while also working on a seven-week project at Mountain Play Lodge. During the same period they collaborated with Asheville Middle School’s IRL program and UNC Asheville craft studies department to create a new mural for the middle school.

Because the group is a volunteer collective comprising individual artists with, in many respects, a shared vision, it exists as a collective only in connections among individuals, and, of course, in the work they leave behind. Group members revere the connections that offer them opportunities to perfect their craft.

In finishing the winter-spring work, the Mural project offered special
thanks to Kitty and Jen at Arts2People; Brent Skidmore, UNC Asheville;
Stephanie Twitty, E.M. Investments; Cindy Weeks of Mountain Housing
Opportunities; Shawn and Sara Collyer at Mountain Play Lodge; Marty and
Ellen Black at the Cotton Mill Studios. The group had special praise for
all the hardworking muralists who created the team’s paintings.

Plans for the future include returning to the murals under the I-240
viaduct crossing Lexington Ave. downtown as well as several other
community and commercial projects.

For more information about the Asheville Mural Project please visit www.arts2people.org/amp.html