Comments for Painting from the Same Palette

Comment on Springfield Mural by Leah

Leah — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:21:53 +0000

Thanks for your input.
Please come to the unveiling of the Springfield Mural at the Dunbar Community Center Friday April 9 6:30pm All are very welcome!
A link to a map can be found on the unveiling page of this website.

Comment on Springfield Mural by Jessenia

Jessenia — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:43:31 +0000

I would like to know at what time you will be painting. Friends and I would like to stop by.
Thanks

Comment on UMass Mural by Íde O'Carroll

Íde O'Carroll — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:11:47 +0000

I commend the idea and recall being present last year for the web link between UMass and the two artists/activists. I hope Mark and Danny recall my comment about including women in the mural, since often the impression is that women were not part of the ’struggle’ or the solutions in NI. I can think of Bernadette McAliskey, the Peace Women, and the Women’s Coalition, for example, as more ‘public’ players, but also the women rarely seen on the telly, who have been behind the scenes, those women who kept families and communities together through difficult times, and those women too who were imprisoned for their political beliefs. In response to my comment last year, both Mark and Danny kindly acknowledged the role women play and have played in their lives …In this instance, maybe images speak louder than words. Let’s see it, please! Many thanks to all involved in this work. Íde O’Carroll, Amherst

Comment on UMass Mural by Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:06:50 +0000

The mural should work to represent UMASS Amherst for what it is and what it hopes to be. UMASS Amherst offers a quality education. The friends, professors, and others I’ve met at UMASS have changed me as a person for the better. College for most people is a time of personal growth and intellectual development, and the mural should reflect this. It should also have diversity represented in it in some way as it has been said here.

Although UMASS is not substantially diverse, it does have proud and strong minority communities and will hopefully be more diverse in the future. The mural could maybe show a future were more different types of people (not only ethnic or racial but also social for example) are joined together towards making this world a better place. I know this is pretty idealistic and kumbaya but it’s a mural it should be happy haha.

This mural should represent the history of UMASS and also its promising future. Whether it shows students at the campus pond in the good weather or students learning in a class…I’m excited to see whatever it is!

Comment on Springfield Mural by artkillscreativity

artkillscreativity — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:23:26 +0000

I think that the mural needs to reflect the struggles and triumphs of the city. I teach at one of the middle schools in the area, and my students recently created a smaller mural on this very topic. The ideas for their mural were very creative, and I would love to see some of them on the mural to be painted. They called their mural a ‘community cork board.’ It was painted to look like cork board and had painted photographs, drawings, and even a to-do list. Some of the images were striking- there was a picture of a flower donating its petals to a homeless person. There was an image labeled ‘Anthony’s First Words’ with a picture of a person spray painting the words ‘What Community?’ on a building. The To-do list had things like ‘Recycle our community’ and ‘Turn violence into friendship.’ And there was also a picture of an unemployment office with a line of people exiting, all of which had reduce/reuse/recycle signs instead of faces. I think that these ideas that the kids came up with are powerful images and could definitely be used for this mural.

Comment on UMass Mural by Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:08:02 +0000

I think the mural should so some kind of conflict resolution, so that the theme will relate to the idea that brought the muralists together in the first place. The world as a whole is facing a lot of problems currently and the mural could try and focus on the Umass involvement in these problems. For example, student and teacher efforts in combating global warming. Student clubs like the RSU that protested budget cuts on March 4th and many others. There are a lot of ideas that could be incorporated, but it definitely show Umass in its true light, not a glorified one that makes it seem like these problems are easily overcome.

Comment on UMass Mural by Sam

Sam — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:51:30 +0000

I would like to see an element of time in the mural. Despite whatever we go through in our lives, we’re always reminded that time will make it better. Time will either ease the pain of loss, give the grieving an opportunity to heal, or let minds come to rest. We have time to chase our goals here at UMASS, we have time to figure out where our lives will take us, and we are here NOW. We live in THIS moment. Growing, fighting, living, learning all together - whether we’re against each other or not.

Comment on Springfield Mural by Kelly Ann Moore

Kelly Ann Moore — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:23:55 +0000

Hello

I think that the mural should be about about stopping the violence in Springfield and/or the different cultures that are found in Springfield. Working with youth in the city to make it a better community for their future. You may even speak to a variety of students from the area and programs such as the Y, Boys and Girls Club, Mt. Caramel….etc

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Comment on UMass Mural by Regan

Regan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:26:30 +0000

People have previously commented on the idea of UMass being a racially diverse campus. And yes, the university advertises itself as diverse in this sense, but is it truly? No. I believe we should include images of the different cultural RSO’s on campus to show how the students within the university are working towards a more diverse campus. Academics is not the only important part of a university, lets remember that and focus on what else is important to our growing and learning.