Grainery Grove Mural Progresses

Grainery Grove by Meghan Meier

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

Artist Meghan Meier continues to work on her mural at Whole Earth Grainery.  Grainery Grove will be completed in the coming weeks and will be the second of as many as five murals to be created in downtown Laramie this fall.  The Laramie Mural Project is a partnership between Laramie Main Street Associates and the UW Art Museum.

 

Laramie Mural Project Featured in the Boomerang

Check out today's edition of the Laramie Boomerang for an article about the Laramie Mural Project. The Boomerang spoke with Trey Sherwood, Executive Director of Laramie Main Street and Susan Moldenhauer, Director and Chief Curator of the the Art Museum.

As one mural by Talal Cockar nears completion, a second by Meghan Meier has begun! Keep checking the blog and our Facebook page for updates!

Laramie Mural Project Advances

Meghan Meier's mural is the second in the Laramie Mural Project

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

 

Talal Cockar's mural nears completion

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

Two murals are now underway for the Laramie Mural Project, an extension of the UW Art Museum's public art exhibition, Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational.  Last night Meghan Meier started to work on her mural at Whole Earth Grainery.  Titled Grainery Grove, she says of her design concept: One of my favorite things about living in Laramie is how easy it is to get to the mountains.  And there has always been something special about finding yourself suddenly in an aspen grove.  So I thought I could contribute something along those line to downtown, people could stumble int an aspen grove . . . and appreciate how lucky we are in where we live and the resources we have."

Our sincere thanks to Vince Arbour and Whole Earth Grainery for his enthusiasm in contributing the wallspace for Grainery Grove!

Meanwhile Talal Cockar nears completion on his large mural at Big Hollow Food Co-op.  

The Laramie Mural Project is a partnership with Laramie Main Street Associates and funded in part by the Wyoming Arts Council, Guthrie Family Foundation, Laramie Beautification Committee, and the City of Laramie.

New Exhibition of Photographs by Eliot Porter Opens on Saturday

Eliot Porter (American, 1901-1990), Aztec Creek, Glen Canyon, Utah – Blue/Gold Colors Reflected, 1962, dye transfer print, 9-9/16 x 8-3/16 inches, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wolf, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1984.195.19

A new exhibition featuring the landscape photographs of Eliot Porter will open this Saturday, August 20 in the Rotunda Gallery of the UW Art Museum. The West of Eliot Porter: Images of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah features images created using a dye transfer printing technique. Porter created a new way of viewing the world by introducing color to landscape photography, which today has become commonplace. He began working in color in 1939, long before his fellow photographers accepted the medium.

Trained as a chemical engineer and a medical doctor, Porter began his career in photography in the early 1930s by making black and white prints in his spare time while working as a bacteriologist and teaching at Harvard University. An exhibition in 1938 at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery prompted Porter to leave Harvard and pursue photography full-time. Porter's work energized environmentalists, drew accolades from museums, and created the foundations for today's color nature photography.

The Art Museum is open 10 am - 5 pm on Saturday and admission is free. For more information about this or any other exhibitions, please visit the Art Museum's webpage, or call 307.766.6622.

Big Hollow Food Co-op Mural Update

Talal Cockar mural at the end of this week

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

By the end of this week, street artist Talal Cockar has made good progress in sketching out and filling in background color for his mural at the Big Hollow Food Co-op. 

Laramie Mural Project Update

Talal Cockar mural at noon today

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

Talal Cockar is making progress on his downtown mural. Yesterday, he had the help of Cathedral Home students to begin painting in the background color for the work. 

Meghan Meier sketch for Whole Earth Grainery

Photo courtesy of the artist

Today we also received the sketches for the mural planned for Whole Earth Grainery.  The artist is Meghan Meier of Laramie and she plans to begin working on site in the coming days.  

 

We are most grateful to Vince Arbor and Whole Earth Grainery for his interest in being part of this important project to improve downtown Laramie.

Art Museum and Laramie Main Street Alliance Announce Laramie Mural Project

 Work begins on mural at Big Hollow Food Co-op

Photo courtesy of the UW Art Museum

A partnership between the Laramie Main Street Alliance and the Art Museum will result in as many as five murals by local artists in downtown Laramie.  The Laramie Mural Project is an extension of the Art Museum's Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational exhibition of public art that opened in 2008.  

 Sketch of Mural Design by Talal Cockar

Photo courtesy of the artist

The first mural is being created by Talal Cockar for the Big Hollow Food Co-op at 119 S First St.  Conversations with the Co-op led to a design that recognizes natural foods and agriculture.  Cockar's title for the work is Tierra y Libertad and is a tribute to the land and to the people that work it.  

The Laramie Mural Project is made possible by the Patricia R. Guthrie Family Foundation, Laramie Beautification Committee, and the City of Laramie in partnership with the Art Museum and Laramie Main Street Alliance.  We are most grateful to Big Hollow Food Co-op for their interest in the Laramie Mural Project and in Talal Cockar's mural design.