During early October 2015 Arts Richmond presented the first piece of its “Outdoor Gallery” project. Arts Richmond and Richmond Community College (RCC) collaborated to complete the first Mural that is on display at Brent Garners Law Office, downtown Rockingham. The art instructor during this time was Jason Lancaster. Jason provided renderings based on information provided by Arts Richmond and The City of Rockingham. Upon agreement of the final rendering, art students from RCC spent many hours preparing and painting the mural. The theme celebrates Richmond County, its rich natural resources, industry and heritage. Arts Richmond is dedicating this Mural to honor these students. This Mural is not “Just a Student Project….This Mural is just simply “Art at Its Best! It is thoughtfully planned with good design, it has structure and it has balance even on such a large scale. The Mural is 8 feet high by 24 feet wide.
This Mural is also “Art at its Best” because it is was created through the Process of Our Young Adults …working together, committing their time and talents, using their creativity and imagination, learning a new art skills, and using those skills to serve and give back to their community….. because it involves the younger generation getting involved in their community and creating Civic pride through the process of Art.
This project will also serve as a cornerstone project to help restore our community spirit and give new ideas and inspiration to what our communities “Can Be, and Can Look Like” going into the future.
Arts Richmond would like to invite anyone interested to be a part of the next mural project to be placed on the exterior wall of the Arts Richmond building. Jason Lancaster will again be the lead Artist on this project.
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11/15/2015 – It is time to begin working on the second mural and Arts Richmond would like to request input from the community. The theme request is “The Arts” as this has been deemed appropriate since the mural will be displayed on the Arts Richmond Building.
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2/26/2016 – The first meeting for the next mural is scheduled for 6:00pm Monday, March 7th at Arts Richmond. The lead artist & instructor, Jason Lancaster, will accept ideas to use for producing renderings to be considered for the Spring Mural project.
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