Many people have been asking us what we’re doing for the Mural on Huron Street. It’s been an evolving topic but we have just agreed on the design concept and are getting closer to the end product after some great interactions with the museum and town about how best to produce this fun piece of public art. It will be unveiled by Art Crawl on the hoarding wall across from the museum.
It’s an unusual project in that we are mixing medias – painting, photography, some archival images, and artwork that the children at the museum camps have assisted with and this is all coming together in a beautiful collage landscape with some didactic (educational) information (along the train cars at the top). We felt our early designs had too much written information and archival images overlaid, resulting in the beautiful imagery underneath getting lost so we’ve all agreed to stay focused on the visual aesthetics. While we want to include historical references, we don’t need to reproduce museum panels. The museum is right across the road so for those interested in more information, we recommend a visit. There’s also a great podcast produced by the museum with some interesting Collingwood anecdotal history.
The first stage, as you will have seen in a previous news article, was to develop some fun colouring book style characters, based on Collingwood’s previous name: “Hens and Chicken Harbour”, in various costumes and activities for the museum campers to colour in.
To the left, you will see a sampling of some of the fun colouring creations by the kids that will be included in the mural.
Below is a quick snapshot of the ‘in progress’ design concept for roughly the first 25 feet of the mural (which will be 100 feet in total.)
Stay tuned to see more progress updates as this project comes together.
We need to complete in the next couple of weeks so that it can be printed on boards and mounted onto the wall before ArtCrawl in mid September.
