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Phillis Wheatley High School Mural Project

  
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Through the ArtworkZ public art program of MOCAH, Phillis Wheatley High School, located 4900 Market in Houston’s historic 5th Ward, students worked with Reginald and Israel Barbosa and painted a community mural. The mural project began in February as a tribute to African American artists during Black History Month. Reginald used the mural project as a tool to expose the students to the masterworks of Houston muralist, Dr. John Biggers. “Biggers’ works are a visual narrative of the African and African American experience and I want the young people involved in this project to reflect and portray their own cultural experiences in our mural the way Biggers did in his own,” says Adams.

The students studied Bigger’s drawings and paintings and viewed video footage of his artworks and biography. The mural project was used as an educational tool for the students to learn about the culture and history of community murals, public art, and the artists behind the work. The planning and design workshops began February 5, 2002 and the mural was completed May 23, 2002.
Design Phase

Through dialogue with the students regarding the relative issues of their community the students brainstormed and derived at the concept of past, present and future. The class of twenty was divided into three groups of 6-7 each. Each group was then assigned one of the categories. From there the smaller teams researched information relative to the past, present and future of Wheatley High School. Each group worked with a basic shape of either the triangle, square and circle to develop their designs.

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