Music in the Village
How it began.
In the fall of 2018, the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee decided to embark on a series of five large public murals to highlight unique attributes of West Concord. They commissioned ART for ALL (then called ART GYM) to create the first mural for Art Week 2019. We decided to highlight music and performance to coincide with the Concord Conservatory of Music’s Bluegrass concert called Band Scramble. Naming our first mural Art Scramble: Music in the Village seemed appropriate as it brought the two projects together and while describing our art making process of numerous people paintng parts of the mural.
It takes a Village.
The original painting was made by six artists at the ART for ALL studio, then photographed and divided into 288 tiles. Over 180 people, in and around West Concord and of all ages and abilities, reproduced the squares onto 6 x 6 inch tiles, producing a 6 x 12 foot painting.
The original painting that was used to create the mural at #23 Bradford St in Concord.
Beautiful Endings.
The composite painting and the original painting were revealed on Saturday, May 4th, 2019 as a part of Art Week 2019 and just before a bluegrass concert hosted by the Concord Conservatory of Music. A photographic reproduction of Art Scramble I is on display in the alley adjacent to Reasons To Be Cheerful in West Concord. The original can be seen at the Wheelhouse in the Bradford Mill building, #23 Bradford Street in West Concord. Next to it is a plaque that shows who painted each tile.