MARYSVILLE SCHOOL PUBLIC ARTThe Pigment Hunter Mobile Lab & Art Studio will connect communities to the places they live through the use of locally sourced pigments from the Earth to create collaborative murals with local artists and students from public schools.
The Marysville Pictograph Project was a public art project that involved working with Marysville School in Portland, OR to provide educational opportunities to connect students to the place they live. The project involved teaching students how to make paints with locally collected earth pigments and creating art work that reflects a sense of place. The project was incorporated into the redevelopment of Marysville School Playground with support from the Confluence Project to introduce a story from the Clackamas Chinook Texts and the history of the Clackamas Chinook tribe and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde into a collaborative art project that honored the First Peoples whose ancestral lands are in the area where the school is located. After the artist in residence program had ended the existing playground was remodeled with the help of numerous partners. The Marysville Pictograph mural of Camas Woman giving birth was woven into the design of the playground and was painted on the new concrete surface at the heart of the school. |