Sonia Molina and Thavin Rajanakhan at work, Collective Consciousness, PGE-YMCA Teen Center Mural
The True Colors Mural project supports the development of young artist activists for the improvement of the urban environment through the creation of public murals. The purpose of the murals are to both educate urban dwellers and beautify the urban environment with messages and images that support ecological sustainability, conservation and restoration. The project recruits, engages and employs under-served youth from Berkeley and the greater East Bay, in vital community murals projects. True Colors tarins young artists to design and create community murals with social and environmental justice themes.
The unique contributions of this project are:
• high quality, enduring, and meaningful community murals that raise issues and consciousness regarding the environment
• improvement of the urban landscape
• educational preparation on these themes for a new generation of high school and college-age activist artists who will receive high school and college level academic units in the arts income for environmental artist/activists from Berkeley’s Youth Works Program.
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- Sam Kaso and Rob Gibson Painting the World
Jane Oriel with large figure in progress, Collective Consciousness Mural
We are currently in a fund raising mode, and welcome donations to our
project. Please visit our donate page to contribute. Checks for True Colors may be made to Earth Island Institute.
Do you guys pay people when they come and paint? if so, how much?
We do pay youth through the City of Berkeley’s Youth Works Program. To be eligible, the must be students who are enrolled in the mural class at Berkeley City College, are between the ages of 15 and 23, and have a Berkeley address. Please let me know if you are interested.
Best regards,
Juana Alicia Araiza, Director
Paid positions are obtained through Youthworks at the beginning of the semester. However, if you want to help out with the mural, check out the paint-in fridays further explained on the home page.