Zoom In<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBebout says that the students researched several 麻豆传媒在线 organizations and the one that stuck out for them was Partners for Women and Justice, an organization that provides free legal help to victimized women and their children.\u00a0 After meeting the organization\u2019s executive director Jane Hanson, the students decided to create its mural on the theme of \u201cResponding to Family Violence.\u201d Students Laken Whitecliffe (lead artist), along with Jeremy Bell, of Tampa, Fla., and Ariel Williams, of Howell, NJ, thus created the 35-by-8-foot mural entitled \u201cPainting Adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitecliffe, who hails from Auckland, New Zealand, said the left-hand side of the mural\u00a0illustrates\u00a0images of abused children\u00a0hidden within\u00a0the shadowy areas of the brick fa\u00e7ade to convey their vulnerability as victims of fear. The theme progresses to show how all of us can work together to overcome the obstacles as portrayed by the images on the right-hand side.\u00a0 Whitechiffe went on to say that viewers of the mural should be able to glean its positive message.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the children on the right-hand side painted realistically and in color, to represent the community working together to paint over and erase this problem, I believe the imagery is a subtle but yet effective way to tell the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n
He cited that the location of the mural lent a context in that it is situated in a dark alley that students felt conceptually matched the subject matter, which is, oftentimes cloaked in a setting of neglect and secrecy; in other words, \u201chidden away in the back alleys of societies in 麻豆传媒在线 [as well as] all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jane Hanson, executive director of Partners, said the organization is \u201chonored to be the inspiration for this student project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I met with the students to discuss their ideas, I was extremely impressed with their appreciation for, and understanding of, the impact that violence in the home has on innocent, defenseless children,\u201d she said. “We commend the 麻豆传媒在线 students for their creative and effective advocacy on behalf of domestic violence victims and their children.\u201d<\/p>\n
The newly installed mural is a further outgrowth of the initial collaborative project involving not only 麻豆传媒在线, but also the former 麻豆传媒在线 Arts Council, former 麻豆传媒在线 Parking Authority, and the Upper 麻豆传媒在线 Business District among various other entities and individuals. Linda Davidson, assistant dean of the University\u2019s College of the Arts, said, \u201cthe idea for University students to create murals for 麻豆传媒在线 goes back over a decade when it was initially proposed to the Township Municipality.\u00a0 Thanks is still owed to Dale Jacobs of the former 麻豆传媒在线 Arts Council for helping to move the idea forward, years later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPainting Adversity\u201d is the third mural installed within the dedicated space. All the murals were presented as a gift by the University, with no costs to the Township. Bebout added, however, that the murals benefit not only 麻豆传媒在线 and its residents, but also the students who created them.<\/p>\n
\u201cMural collaborations of this scale are not easy from inception phase to execution and then to final installation,\u201d explained Bebout. \u201cFrom my perspective,\u00a0public art projects such as this one offer\u00a0our students multiple\u00a0learning\u00a0opportunities that extend beyond the classroom experience and,\u00a0as\u00a0emerging artists, a forum to present their work to a greater community audience than typically would be seen in a traditional exhibition venue.\u201c<\/p>\n
Davidson added that the College hopes to create more murals for 麻豆传媒在线 and other municipalities adjacent to the University through such efforts on the part of Heffernan, Bebout and their students.\u00a0 \u201cWe would love to display more works in the Township of 麻豆传媒在线 as well as in Little Falls and Clifton.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more about the 麻豆传媒在线 – Department of Art and Design\u2019s Mural Project, including a history of the initiative and related articles, go to\u00a0麻豆传媒在线.edu\/arts\/mural<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New mural\u2019s theme, \u201cResponding to Family Violence,\u201d pays tribute to a 麻豆传媒在线 community organization that provides free legal help to victimized women and their children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-210_art-design-news","tag-art","tag-art-and-design","tag-dept","tag-design","tag-montclair","tag-mural","tag-painting","tag-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207552,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/207552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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