Community Mural Collaboration!
Donation protected
Hello friends, family & community!
City Mischief Murals, Creatives After Curfew and Victoria Theater Arts Center are coming together to create a mural event & food donation drive in Frogtown at 811 University Avenue, Saint Paul, MN on September 26th & 27th! The mural will consist of 11 10’x10’ individual murals side by side with themes of Love, Unity, Justice, Equity, and Cooperation. We will also be collecting non perishable food donations and house supplies, the Frogtown Neighborhood Association will receive these supplies and distribute them in the community!
We’re already on our way to making this happen, we have a secured location & some supplies, we are asking the community for financial support to get this project completed!
About the City Mischief, Creatives After Curfew & Victoria Theater Arts Center
City Mischief is a group of Indigenous, Black & Latinx artists creating community based murals & events in the Twin Cities. City Mischief artists will be Thomasina Topbear, Holly Miskitoos Henning, Charlie Garcia & Ghor.
Creatives After Curfew Creatives after Curfew is a decentralized collective of BIPOC/Queer artists & allies who share resources, skills and knowledge in an effort to co-create art that soothes, remembers, builds & imagines a future rooted in justice + liberation. Creative After Curfew artists will be Maria Robinson, Grover Hogan, Maiya Lea Hartman & Bayou also known as Donald Thomas.
Victoria Theater Arts Center a small arts non-profit that’s about building community power in the Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods. Victoria Theater Arts artists will be Alex Smith, Geno Okok, Chinese Okolo & Winfrey Oenga.
Frogtown/Rondo Victoria Theater Arts Center has located a 110 foot wall at 811 University Ave for a mural. City Mischief and Creatives After Curfew have painted many murals as commissions for private sites. With this site, the two BIPOC artist collectives will combine their efforts in a large-scale collaboration with Victoria Theater. It would feature 8 different murals on the same wall, centered in themes our community is rallying around during this time: Love, Unity, Justice, Equity, and Cooperation. All of the artists have past and present relationships with the Frogtown/Rondo neighborhood.
It is a neighborhood holding many different cultures with a beautiful and strong community. The wall is in an empty lot that hosts events such as a local art fair, free acupuncture for healing, and drum circles. Creating a community mural will deter graffiti and beautify a space used by the neighborhood such as the Frogtown Neighborhood Association’s annual informational sharing event. Front line workers heal the community through acupuncture in this space, community art is made and sold there, and all these activities build strong relationships with neighbors and promote civic engagement.
The public will be welcome to come enjoy watching the painting process and listen to a live DJ while doing so! It is so important that we continue to give our BIPOC artists a safe platform to express themselves and share their messages with the community. The lot in front of the wall space also hosts a number of community type events such free acupuncture & an annual community art fair. Help us beautify this space and get this project done by sharing and giving what you can!
City Mischief Murals, Creatives After Curfew and Victoria Theater Arts Center are coming together to create a mural event & food donation drive in Frogtown at 811 University Avenue, Saint Paul, MN on September 26th & 27th! The mural will consist of 11 10’x10’ individual murals side by side with themes of Love, Unity, Justice, Equity, and Cooperation. We will also be collecting non perishable food donations and house supplies, the Frogtown Neighborhood Association will receive these supplies and distribute them in the community!
We’re already on our way to making this happen, we have a secured location & some supplies, we are asking the community for financial support to get this project completed!
About the City Mischief, Creatives After Curfew & Victoria Theater Arts Center
City Mischief is a group of Indigenous, Black & Latinx artists creating community based murals & events in the Twin Cities. City Mischief artists will be Thomasina Topbear, Holly Miskitoos Henning, Charlie Garcia & Ghor.
Creatives After Curfew Creatives after Curfew is a decentralized collective of BIPOC/Queer artists & allies who share resources, skills and knowledge in an effort to co-create art that soothes, remembers, builds & imagines a future rooted in justice + liberation. Creative After Curfew artists will be Maria Robinson, Grover Hogan, Maiya Lea Hartman & Bayou also known as Donald Thomas.
Victoria Theater Arts Center a small arts non-profit that’s about building community power in the Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods. Victoria Theater Arts artists will be Alex Smith, Geno Okok, Chinese Okolo & Winfrey Oenga.
Frogtown/Rondo Victoria Theater Arts Center has located a 110 foot wall at 811 University Ave for a mural. City Mischief and Creatives After Curfew have painted many murals as commissions for private sites. With this site, the two BIPOC artist collectives will combine their efforts in a large-scale collaboration with Victoria Theater. It would feature 8 different murals on the same wall, centered in themes our community is rallying around during this time: Love, Unity, Justice, Equity, and Cooperation. All of the artists have past and present relationships with the Frogtown/Rondo neighborhood.
It is a neighborhood holding many different cultures with a beautiful and strong community. The wall is in an empty lot that hosts events such as a local art fair, free acupuncture for healing, and drum circles. Creating a community mural will deter graffiti and beautify a space used by the neighborhood such as the Frogtown Neighborhood Association’s annual informational sharing event. Front line workers heal the community through acupuncture in this space, community art is made and sold there, and all these activities build strong relationships with neighbors and promote civic engagement.
The public will be welcome to come enjoy watching the painting process and listen to a live DJ while doing so! It is so important that we continue to give our BIPOC artists a safe platform to express themselves and share their messages with the community. The lot in front of the wall space also hosts a number of community type events such free acupuncture & an annual community art fair. Help us beautify this space and get this project done by sharing and giving what you can!
Fundraising team (3)
Thomasina Topbear
Organizer
Minneapolis, MN
Aki Shibata
Beneficiary
Holly Henning
Team member
Taylan Dejohnette
Team member
