Killingsworth Street Art Mural
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Northeast Portland!
The artists Campographic, Calm and Flash need your help to pull off a huge mural installation for a landmark neighborhood market in Northeast Portland. We are partnering with Cole Reed of GreenHAUS Gallery and OpenHAUS co-working to assist in bringing this project to life. Cole knows first hand the significance of connecting with community members and took an interest in the vision we had to transform these walls for the new business setting up shop here.
It is our hope that together with your community support we can recharge the community with a positive project to kick off a new year. Your donation to this project will directly contribute to purchasing paint and materials needed by the artists to paint their works. This building has been slated for demolition and some point in the future, but that time isn’t now. We want to make this place look nice in the meanwhile instead of a point of blight. We hope that with a small donation of $10 or $20, we can temporarily improve the visual landscape of an overlooked space.
1436 NE Killingsworth Ave used to cater to local residents as a carry out called Island Foods for years and had some incredible art on the walls outside. Since the closure of the business, the walls have taken a beating and been covered in layers of off-colored buff paint to deter tagging for years, but with no success.
A brave woman named Aisha Keita has taken up the challenge to invest in the space to start up a business in the middle of the Pandemic. She has overhauled this underutilized space to turn it into a thrift shop for the local community. Hailing from Western Africa, she explained that in the markets there, prices are fluid and bargaining is common. She intends to apply a similar philosophy to her business here. Rather than enforcing strict prices, if you are need of a good she has, then you make an offer. In times like these, she is looking out for her neighbors by providing second hand goods to those that need them most.
As an artist and resident of this neighborhood, I see the walls of this building everyday. Small business owners have a hard enough time getting off the ground, and dealing with buffing tags everyday doesn’t help. I’m impressed with Aisha’s imagination to repurpose a building that would otherwise be sitting vacant with out her help. She’s doing a lot of work on the inside so I was compelled to offer her some artwork on the outside to deter future tagging that would take away from her businesses image. We hope that if the residents of Alberta neighborhood are interested in seeing what COULD be instead of looking at what HAS been, then they would be interested to donate to the project. Last summer I took part in painting a community funded mural project in St. Johns and saw the impact of what the coordinators achieved. Murals reinvigorate forgotten spaces and improve the visual landscape of the places we see everyday. Murals have transformed spaces all over Alberta Main Street and surrounding areas, so lets show this highly trafficked corned at 15th and NE Killingsworth some love!
Pictured: Aisha Keita and Campographic
The total square footage of the building on 3 sides totals more than 1800 sq ft.
Spray paint requirements for this space wont be cheap, but with the local support it is certainly more than possible. Paint is $8/can, so if you can spare a few dollars to buy us a color, it will go a long way (approximately 20 sq ft)!
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About the artists involved:
Calm and Flash are known and visible throughout the Portland region. Their complimentary styles contribute to brightly colored and shaded 3D geometric worlds. Patterns and waves of color are central to their work while displaying letter forms as shapes in a futuristic space.
@Rupeezy @Calmmurals
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Campographic is a NE artist resident new to the scene with a handful of murals under his belt In the past year around Portland. Combining swirling, marbled patterns with typography and realism, his work seeks to energize walls with highly detailed work. Building on self empowering affirmations and psychedelic movement, his latest murals serve as tool for self-reflection. Peering into an image with no identifiable form allows the mind to relax while absorbing its intended message.
@Campographic
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Additional painting support by @ Casetwelve and @Opasit is projected for a large shipping container on site as well.
More on the proposed imagery will follow as the concepts are developed and the project comes to life with your help.
We are seeking $2500 dollars for this project to pay for spray paint, latex paint, prep materials for the surface and to rent out a paint sprayer to get a good base on the wall before we begin.
If 125 people kicked in a $20, then the project would begin as soon as the weather cooperates. We currently aim to have the work installed before the end of february.
Thank you humbly for considering our efforts!
- Campo
The artists Campographic, Calm and Flash need your help to pull off a huge mural installation for a landmark neighborhood market in Northeast Portland. We are partnering with Cole Reed of GreenHAUS Gallery and OpenHAUS co-working to assist in bringing this project to life. Cole knows first hand the significance of connecting with community members and took an interest in the vision we had to transform these walls for the new business setting up shop here.
It is our hope that together with your community support we can recharge the community with a positive project to kick off a new year. Your donation to this project will directly contribute to purchasing paint and materials needed by the artists to paint their works. This building has been slated for demolition and some point in the future, but that time isn’t now. We want to make this place look nice in the meanwhile instead of a point of blight. We hope that with a small donation of $10 or $20, we can temporarily improve the visual landscape of an overlooked space.
1436 NE Killingsworth Ave used to cater to local residents as a carry out called Island Foods for years and had some incredible art on the walls outside. Since the closure of the business, the walls have taken a beating and been covered in layers of off-colored buff paint to deter tagging for years, but with no success.
A brave woman named Aisha Keita has taken up the challenge to invest in the space to start up a business in the middle of the Pandemic. She has overhauled this underutilized space to turn it into a thrift shop for the local community. Hailing from Western Africa, she explained that in the markets there, prices are fluid and bargaining is common. She intends to apply a similar philosophy to her business here. Rather than enforcing strict prices, if you are need of a good she has, then you make an offer. In times like these, she is looking out for her neighbors by providing second hand goods to those that need them most.
As an artist and resident of this neighborhood, I see the walls of this building everyday. Small business owners have a hard enough time getting off the ground, and dealing with buffing tags everyday doesn’t help. I’m impressed with Aisha’s imagination to repurpose a building that would otherwise be sitting vacant with out her help. She’s doing a lot of work on the inside so I was compelled to offer her some artwork on the outside to deter future tagging that would take away from her businesses image. We hope that if the residents of Alberta neighborhood are interested in seeing what COULD be instead of looking at what HAS been, then they would be interested to donate to the project. Last summer I took part in painting a community funded mural project in St. Johns and saw the impact of what the coordinators achieved. Murals reinvigorate forgotten spaces and improve the visual landscape of the places we see everyday. Murals have transformed spaces all over Alberta Main Street and surrounding areas, so lets show this highly trafficked corned at 15th and NE Killingsworth some love!
Pictured: Aisha Keita and Campographic
The total square footage of the building on 3 sides totals more than 1800 sq ft.
Spray paint requirements for this space wont be cheap, but with the local support it is certainly more than possible. Paint is $8/can, so if you can spare a few dollars to buy us a color, it will go a long way (approximately 20 sq ft)!
———————————
About the artists involved:
Calm and Flash are known and visible throughout the Portland region. Their complimentary styles contribute to brightly colored and shaded 3D geometric worlds. Patterns and waves of color are central to their work while displaying letter forms as shapes in a futuristic space.
@Rupeezy @Calmmurals
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Campographic is a NE artist resident new to the scene with a handful of murals under his belt In the past year around Portland. Combining swirling, marbled patterns with typography and realism, his work seeks to energize walls with highly detailed work. Building on self empowering affirmations and psychedelic movement, his latest murals serve as tool for self-reflection. Peering into an image with no identifiable form allows the mind to relax while absorbing its intended message.
@Campographic
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Additional painting support by @ Casetwelve and @Opasit is projected for a large shipping container on site as well.
More on the proposed imagery will follow as the concepts are developed and the project comes to life with your help.
We are seeking $2500 dollars for this project to pay for spray paint, latex paint, prep materials for the surface and to rent out a paint sprayer to get a good base on the wall before we begin.
If 125 people kicked in a $20, then the project would begin as soon as the weather cooperates. We currently aim to have the work installed before the end of february.
Thank you humbly for considering our efforts!
- Campo
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Campo Graphic
Organisator
Portland, OR