Mural Project

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Project Overview To work with diverse often marginalized youth to provide an alternative avenue for a healthy life style while creating a beautiful work of art in the North East Portland District

Project Partners
DSI NE Portland Dialysis, Irvington Neighborhood Association, Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, & the African American Chamber of Commerce

Project Schedule

July 2008
-Lead artist Robin Corbo joins the project

October 2008
-Portland OIC Rosemary Anderson High School students begin working with Robin Corbo on mural design

January 2009
-Funding and grant process continue

June 2009

June 11th (week of):
-Final word from RACC grant applied for May 6th application
-Reserve scaffolding

June 16th 5pm-6:30pm
-Mural Community meeting

June 22-July 2
-pick-up supplies needed to start process
-wall preparation (cleaning, new base paint)

July-August

July 10-12
-students, volunteers, and artist painting

July 17-19

-students, volunteers, and artist painting

July 24-26 -students, volunteers, and artist painting

July 31-Aug 2
-students, volunteers, and artist painting

Aug 7-9
-students, volunteers, and artist painting

Aug 14-16
-students, volunteers, and artist painting

Aug 21-23
-(final touch-up or make-up days dependant on weather)

*Dates subject to change

Project Updates

26 February, 2009 - Meeting Minutes

Black and White Mural Sketch

16 June, 2009 - Meeting Minutes

30 June, 2009 - Meeting Minutes

The wall, prepped and ready to go! 7 July, 2009

We've got color! A photo depicting our progress. 24 July, 2009

Progress Update. 02 August, 2009

Progress Update. 17 August, 2009

Community Dedication Ceremony

Current Positions

Volunteer Positions

Can you help us? We have a wishlist of items that will help us accomplish this mission.
Wish list

Project Background

On the corner of 7th and Hancock in Northeast Portland you will find a modest cinder block building, the home of DSI a dialysis clinic serving Portland's most fragile citizens. Its southern face presents a 100 foot long white wall tattooed with a variety of dismal spray paint tags, pictures, and obscenities. For many years now the clinic staff has had to repaint the wall frequently to preserve the cleanliness, care, and professionalism that you can always find within the building's walls. Patients, family members, staff, and passers-by see a daily battle waged between the clinic staff and the "art work" found outside. Layer upon layer of mismatched shades of paint covering the week’s graffiti create a patchwork quilt effect. This is not a new sight in Portland; the city spends approximately $2 million dollars a year on graffiti abatement.

Our dream is to create another type of quilt, a vibrant mural made of paint and a mosaic of tile on not just a wall but a structure that serves as a haven, providing life to end-stage renal disease patients. Our design will tell a story of health and vitality, prolonging and perhaps preventing the need to cross the threshold to the inside. It will instill a sense of pride for those that live in the community. Using this unique canvas and partnerships with several business organizations, youth organizations, and artists we will inspire our young to stay healthy, tap into their creativity, and empower them to be front runners in making positive changes in our beautiful city, and in their lives.

Our goal is to create a ripple effect. Those involved give back to their communities. They inspire their families and friends in the importance of overall health, drawing attention to healthy kidneys at the same time demosntrating community involvement, and pride while spreading positive change throughout Portland.

Special Thanks
Those who make this project possible

Contact info:
Mike Program
(503) 296-7705 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (503) 296-7705      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
mural@mikeprogram.org