Overview
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY OF A MURAL IN PROGRESS (three related projects, submitted together):
After winning a competition sponsored by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, muralists Tom Chalkley and Ken Clemons began work in mid-June on a large mural next to the gas station located on the northeastern corner of Greenmount Avenue and 33rd Street. A few days after mural work started, Greg Gannon joined their team as the third muralist. The mural took about 60 days to complete (including the time required to paint over the deteriorated 32-year-old mural previously located at the same site).
Throughout the painting of the mural, over 30 volunteers from the Waverly Community and the Baltimore Region joined the three muralists to complete the work. With Tom's permission, Art Cohen set about chronicling the mural's daily progress from start to finish, with time-lapse photos of the entire mural and many other pictures of the volunteers and muralists at work - a total of 1,500 photos in all. This project, number 1), includes ten representative pictures (in date sequence) of the muralists and volunteers who painted the Waverly Village Mural.
The time-lapse photography of the day-by-day progress is to be seen in Project 2) which is included directly below this project, and where a more detailed description may also be found. To honor the activity, Cohen wrote new lyrics to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" - with the a new title "This Wall is Your Wall," and this is sung and accompanied on the accordion by Cohen as part of the time-lapse video.
The third and final project documents the dis-assembling of the scaffold by the scaffolders in early August 2010 - which was documented by an additional 500 photos, ten of which are shown here (in time sequence). A more detailed description of Project 3) may be found there.
