Commisson A Mural Painting Send Email
Corey Barksdale accepts a limited number of commissions each month! Commissions are open for this year. Get in touch for more details @ 615-601-27872!
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
Step 1: THE EMAIL/INITIAL DETAILS
EMAIL me @ clow2ground@gmail.com.
Have a price range in mind, and using that I will give you options for your commission based on the following specifications:
Substrate material:
Stretched canvas (for acrylic & mixed media projects)?
Stretched masonite board (for acrylic & mixed media & oil painting projects)?
Size
Corey usually work with large scale canvas sizes ie. 3'x4' or 5'x10' or 10'x10' and large scale wall murals.
Have Aesthetics in mind:
Corey's paintings are combinations of colorful, flowing lines that seem to dance and move across the canvas. In considering Corey for a commissioned painting understand that he used a colorful and vivid palette.
Step 2: THE PROCESS
He usually ask for the meaning or concept behind the work that you want created. When you make a request, summarize your request in the title and please provide any reference materials that you have. These things give Corey layers of meaning to work from and help him to create work that is more personal and has a deeper meaning relating to your project.
Based on Corey's style and creative process he will take the provided info and make stylistic and aesthetic choices to bring your idea to reality. A sketch will be created to represent the proposed creative concept.
Corey will send you an invoice for the deposit - 50% of the total. When this has been paid he will get you on the calendar and give you an estimated timeline. He can only take a limited number of commission orders a month so be sure to contact me for an estimated start date if you have firm deadlines.
Step 3: The painting.
Corey will work on the piece for up to 8 weeks. Upon completion I will send you photos of your painting once it is completed.
PAYMENT
An email invoice that you can pay online via Paypal will be forwarded to you. A 50% deposit will be due upon agreement, and the final 50% payment will be due after approval, before painting is shipped or picked up.
SHIPPING
Shipping will be billed upon receipt via online invoice, or you are welcome to pick up the painting if you are local.
SHIPPING
Shipping will be billed upon receipt via online invoice, or you are welcome to pick up the painting if you are local.
Dan Parolek — November 19, 2014 Across the country, cities large and small are looking a little more colorful lately—and that’s not because of the changing seasons.
Groups that aim to promote local talent and engage the community have been turning empty city walls into huge public canvases and the results of their labor can have a lasting effect on local neighborhoods.
Second Annual Grove Fest paint-by-number Mural (9a) Top: St. Louis community members young and old work together to complete Grace McCammond’s “Dragon” mural. Above: One of McCammond’s first murals in St. Louis. Both photos courtesy of the artist. “Murals build a sense of community,” muralist Grace McCammond told St. Louis Public Radio.
“They make it welcoming and walkable and they make you want to go there.” McCammond’s first mural in the St. Louis, MO, neighborhood known as The Grove was commissioned fifteen years ago by a local property owner. It was so well received that soon other property owners wanted murals too. At the time, The Grove was a place most people avoided, but now it’s known as a local hotspot. In Cincinnati, OH, ArtWorks employs teens to paint murals designed by local and nationally renowned artists—they are the largest employer of visual artists in the region.
Since 1996, they have completed 90 murals ranging in style from trompe l’oeil to symbolism. “We strive to be the economic engine that empowers creatives to transform our region,” Tamara Harkavy, CEO and artistic director of ArtWorks told Opticos.
ArtWorks also offers workshops covering important professional skills like money management and resume writing. ArtWorks was inspired by Philadelphia, PA’s, Mural Arts Program, which under Executive Director Jane Golden sought to reorganize the raw artistic talent of the city’s graffiti artists.
She went on to partner with city agencies to create programs that connect the process of muralism with art education, restorative justice, and behavioral health programs for Philadelphia’s youth population, inmates at area prisons and
A growing body of research has positively identified murals with social, cultural, and economic benefits as well as positive mental health. Murals have the added benefit of intersectionality, meaning they promote these characteristics simultaneously, in a synergistic way. Some specific ways in which murals are beneficent include:
Public Art
- Murals offer accessibility to art and creative expression without the cost and class-based barriers associated with museums and galleries, as well as architectural integration into the physical environment.
- In addition, public art initiatives have been identified as an equity-advancement strategy for economic development of populations at risk of displacement.
Aesthetics
- Through the visual aesthetic, murals promote a sense of Identity, belonging, attachment, welcoming, and openness, and strengthen community identification to place.
This mural, on the Richmond Greenway,
was part of an urban redevelopment effort which encouraged biking, walking, and use of public space.
Creative Placemaking
- Many Creative Placemaking initiatives revolve around public art, and murals in particular are highly-effective tools, because of their physical integration into their environment, and their many aesthetic benefits.
- Murals create a tangible sense of place, destination, resulting in increased foot traffic while adding color, vibrancy, and character to urban environment. Murals contrast the negative mental health effects of concrete and asphalt, and can have therapeutic benefits for mentally-ill and homeless populations. Additionally, multiple murals in a retail corridor can creates a visible sense of being in an an arts district or cultural corridor.
- While some Placemaking initiatives have raised concerns about advancing gentrification, by centering equity as a core value and integrating community stakeholder input and participation into the process, the opposite outcome can be emphasized and achieved. Recent studies, in fact, have linked arts and culture to equitable development.
This mural of community activist Mother Wright is part of Creative Placemaking initiative by the People’s Grocery in West Oakland.
Creative Placekeeping
- Murals can also be instrumental to Creative Placekeeping, which differs from Creative Placemaking in that engagement and activities are ongoing and incorporate active curation of a mural site. Historical examples of this include the Wall of Respect in Chicago and Clarion Alley in San Francisco.
- CRP murals have served as the backdrop for music videos, mural tours and art walks, block parties and community celebrations, and have inspired panel discussions, symposia, and documentary and multimedia projects. There is no limit to what Creative Placekeeping activities can entail, except one’s own imagination.
Public safety
- Murals are examples of the controversial “broken windows” theory in reverse – enhancing public safety by creating a feeling that a location is cared for, which in turn makes crimes of opportunity — such as vandalism, illegal dumping, drug use, and robbery — less-likely.
- For example, murals which address gun violence humanize, rather than dehumanize, victims, creating emotional resonance rather than numbing emotions.
This memorial mural, which lists names of victims of gun violence in Oakland, has helped to calm down a neighborhood hotspot.
Abatement
- Murals can effect tag mitigation, and deter tag recidivism. In addition to a beautification advantage over simple abatement—murals are simply more attractive to look at than blank walls—they can also offer significant long-term cost savings in vandalism hotspots and generally require only minor maintenance when best practice methods (such as clear-coating) are employed.
- To learn more about abatement and alternatives, click here.
The Peace and Dignity mural in Oakland’s Fruitvale District was funded by the Redevelopment Agency as part of a blight mitigation initiative.
Uphold public art objectives and goals
- Public Art programs are intended to increase the quality of life for all residents of a city, while Cultural Affairs Departments often have core values of celebrating diversity and life enrichment. Murals are definitive example of public art which can perfectly align with these goals and values.
Youth development
An ArrowSoul Student poses with his first piece.
- Mural initiatives have been used in many cities to promote youth development and youth-led programs.
- Murals have also been used in the development of youth-oriented curricula in education.
Facilitate public-private partnerships and collaborations
Kiazi Malonga, Mayor Jean Quan, Cephus Johnson, Carla service, Pancho Peskador, and Desi Mundo at the Alice st. mural ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- Murals can connects artists, community organizations, non-profits, small business, BIDS, community development corporations, developers, government agencies, educational and cultural institutions, etc., in collaborative creative engagement projects.
Messaging / Social Consciousness / Equity
- Murals can also promote equitable outcomes for historically-underserved or disadvantaged populations.
Murals can provide the messaging for social movements.
Blight mitigation
- Murals transform blighted areas in urban cities, and are a relatively-inexpensive method of urban redevelopment which are particularly effective in blighted areas, especially those in the inner-city. This, in turn, helps maintain property values while also deterring crime, such as illegal dumping and drug use. murals can also be combined with streetscaping projects.
Tourism, commerce (in commercial areas)
- Mural programs have been used as economic development initiatives, with the goal of increasing tourism by making commercial retail sectors more attractive destinations for visitors, as well as local residents.
Murals can be a catalyst for community-building.
Sustainability / Resilience
- Murals add a creative aesthetic to the built environment, which energizes neglected or blighted neighborhoods, and enhances districts where new development is taking place by creating a sense of destination.
- When linked to cultural preservation efforts, murals can also highlight diversity and resilience initiatives.
This mural was commissioned by StopWaste.org to increase awareness of environmental issues.
