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Topic: Racism

race and mural 

• Academic
  • And the Mural Came Down: Race, Removal, and Reckoning in the Sunshine City (2022)
  • Mural Controversy (2023)
  • Pan-Americanism, Patriotism, and Race Pride in Charles White's Hampton Mural (2016)
• Non-academic
  • Thomas Hart Benton's "America Today" Mural Rediscovered (2015)

racism and mural 

• Academic
  • People-Powered Art | Community Murals (2022)
  • Breaking Bars: Community-Based Art Therapy Mural Project (2020)
• Non-academic
  • 'Black Lives Matter' Murals Stir Constitutional Controversy (2023)
  • Don't Look Now! (2019)
  • Hidden Figures: College wins bid to cover controversial murals (2023)

Topic: Justice

justice and graffiti

• Academic
  • Graffiti Museum: A First Amendment Argument for Protecting Uncommissioned Art on Private Property (2012)
  • Graffiti: Giving Voice to the Indigenous (2012)
• Non-academic
  • Educate, don't erase (2022)
  • Street Smarts: The Gender Justice of Graffiti Artist Panmela Castro (2012)
  • While We're At It (2016)

justice and mural

• Academic
  • Visualization of the Politics of Tolerance: Women's Non-Verbal Message in the "Edificio de Mujeres" Women's Building in San Francisco (2023)
  • The Baltimore Mural Project: An Approach to Threshold Concepts in Religious Studies (2018)
• Non-academic
  • The Healing Arts (2014)
  • DC Mayor Commissions 'Black Lives Matter' Mural on Street Leading to White House, BLM Organizers Not Impressed by 'Performative' Gesture (2020)

Topic: Community

community and mural

• Academic
  • The Front (2022)
  • Jewish and Arab Youth Create Murals in Public Space: Community-Based Art Therapy Exploratory Research (2022)
  • "Off the Wall" Reading Community Mural Making As a Contestable Site of Urban Youth Governance (2018)
• Non-academic
  • The Arts' Role in Community Well-Being (2022)
  • The Disaster Artist (2023)

service and mural

• Academic
  • Using Informational Murals and Handwashing Stations to Increase Access to Sanitation Among People Experiencing Homelessness During the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021)
  • Spotlight on Reciprocity in Service-Learning (2021)
  • A Story for CBAE for Future Art Educators (2015)
• Non-academic
  • ​​​​​​​Power of Art (2016)
  • Dreaming in Color: Today's Murals Reflect Past Nightmares, Current Hopes, and Growing Diversity in Northern Ireland (2017)

1. How Public Art Can Improve Quality of Life and Advance Equity by Caitlin Young
2. Why Public Art Is Good For Cities by Marianne Dhenin
3. The Potential of Public Art by Sean Starowitz 
4. American Icons: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
5. Transforming Cities Through Public Art
6. A Project of Peace, Painted Across 50 Buildings
7. Coffee shop removes Muck Rock mural, citing artist's 'racially insensitive' past work by David Lindquist 
8. Why I Turned Chicago’s Abandoned Homes into Art
9. How to Revive a Neighborhood: With Imagination, Beauty and Art
10. Including the Public in Public Art
11. Public Art as a Community Building Strategy
12. Public Art that Turns Cities into Playgrounds of the Imagination
13. Does Public Art Have an Afterlife? 
14. An Indiana Group is Expanding the Definition, and Maybe, the Placement of ‘Public Art’ 

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Fountain Square Horror-themed Airbnb 

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A former Fountain Square dental clinic is undergoing a spooky transformation to an Airbnb with themed rooms inspired by popular movies such as “Beetlejuice,” “Ghostbusters,” “Dracula,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” and “Scream.”

The exterior of Black House Café features murals created by Pamela Bliss, the artist known for her downtown tributes to author Kurt Vonnegut and basketball Hall of Famer Reggie Miller.

The cafe’s murals include depictions of Freddy Krueger from the “Elm Street” movies, a death’s-head hawkmoth made famous by “Silence of the Lambs,” and a claw mark with a Krueger silhouette. The moth mural by Bliss adorns a tower at the south end of the building, and a spiral staircase in this tower will provide Airbnb guests access to a rooftop deck.

by: Dylan Hodges

Posted: Oct 9, 2023 / 11:53 AM EST / Updated: Oct 10, 2023 / 03:35 PM EST