2020 was quite a year and we feel like we need space to process all that has happened and to imagine a brighter future for this new year. What better way to get out all the feels than by creating a community art project together?
Boston Court invites the Pasadena community to paint your reflections of the past year and hopes for the future on our new outdoor art walls. The walls are gridded with squares that you can paint in however you’d like and the patchwork murals that we create together will then be on display at Boston Court throughout the spring!
We encourage you to bring your own painting supplies for COVID hygiene reasons, but we will also have child-safe paints and brushes available on site. The painting will take place outdoors in our driveway and parking lot, socially distanced and everyone will be required to wear masks. Boston Court staff will be on site to assist!
6 people can participate during each 90 minute time slot. If you’d like to come paint, click the SIGN UPcall_made button to the right.
TWO NEW PAINTING DAYS JUST ADDED!
May 5: 3-4:30PM
May 5: 4:30-6PM
May 12: 3-4:30PM
May 12: 4:30-6PM
We asked three professional artists to paint a square to get us started. Check out their amazing work below!
Brenda Barrios (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist from Pasadena, CA. She started as a Fashion major who usually uses her sewing skills for her sculpture making. As the COVID-19 Pandemic happened, she started making more digital art. Brenda Barrios has used her Instagram platform to sell her art and showcase and express her feelings about important Social Justice issues. She works with digital Illustrations and videos to communicate her virtual art platform. She has showcased her art in New York and London with amplifier 2020. Brenda is a first-generation, non-traditional with a disability art student at UCLA. You can check out her Instagram at @bbbarrios.
Julio Jimenez “JJ” is a professional 3D street painter/muralist who creates interactive 3D murals for corporate ad campaigns, businesses, & festivals in the US and around the world. Since 2005 Julio has accumulated an eclectic portfolio of hundreds of pieces depicting everything from automobiles to anatomy, to buildings, to renditions of masterpieces, to 3D anamorphic, to food and animals, and more. You can follow him on Instagram at @jjsplant and on Facebook at /julio.c.jimenez.18.
Randall Williams (he/him/his) has a Bachelor of Arts from Western Illinois University. He came to L.A. in 1980 and started working for LACMA. He then went on to work in stained glass, portraiture, Italian street painting in Santa Barbara, and became the art director of Elson Alexandre. Randall also participates in all major chalk festivals and is the spokesman for Pasadena Chalk Festival. You can see some of his current work on display at the Studio Avalon Del Mar Station in Pasadena.
