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Biogen Community Lab Murals
   Various sizes on walls of lab and entranceway   Biogen Community Lab 140 6th St., Cambridge    [Acryli on walls and exterior brick sidewalk]

Biogen is a biotech company in Cambridge, MA that supports a community lab and wanted to decorate the walls of the lab with mini murals. I designed various murals for the hallway, stairway, and lab spaces of the lab that add color, life, focus and meaning to the spaces. The images help to lead students and teachers into the space and activate the primary lab with lively, fun, and inspirational science-based images on columns and in various designated parts of the walls. The artist was assisted by Yetti Frenkel and various volunteer employees of Biogen.
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Biogen Street Stencil Mural
   stencils over a 50 ft. X 50 ft. area   Terrace in front of Bright Horizons at Biogen Day Care, 300    [Rainworks Hydrophobic spray coating on concrete]
As part of a Biogen Murals and Street Art Initiative, the Artist was commissioned to design a series of stencils for a concrete patio in front of a Day Care. The stencils which were of fish (river herring), painted turtles, water lilies and pads, great blue herons and other wetland wildlife, were sprayed on the concrete using Rainworks hydrophobic spray coating which is invisible until it rains, when the imagery immediately becomes visible. The hydrophobic spray is applied to concrete, the concrete underneath doesn’t change colors until the concrete surface gets wet and whatever pattern or design that has been created remains a lighter color. I created an "invisible mural" that only reveals itself after it rains. Several hundred years ago, the area of Cambridge (Kendall Square) was a marsh. The invisible murals recreate that past.
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Mystic River Mural Project
   10' X 1200'   Somerville, MA    [acrylic paint on MDO panels and Dibond panels]
The Mystic River Mural Project began in 1996, when I worked with a group of high school students in Somerville to explore the wildlife, history, and environmental issues around the Mystic River watershed and then paint a large mural on panels that were installed on the concrete retaining wall for I-93. This became an ongoing project, resulting in an enormous mural about the watershed that is enlarged every summer with the work of new students. The mural is sponsored by the Somerville Arts Council, City of Somerville, MA. In the summer of 2022, it will be the 26th consecutive year that the project has taken place.
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Mystic River - Close-Ups
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Native Waters
   15' (varies) X 350'   De Kalb Ave., Atlanta, Georgia    [Acrylic paint on concrete ]
"Native Waters" depicts the watersheds of Georgia and is located on the actual Eastern Subcontinental Divide, which separates those watersheds. It was painted with the assistance of over 100 volunteers and illustrates the journeys of the larger rivers of Georgia.
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Alewife Reservation Mural Project
   8 ft. X 80 ft.   Alewife T Station, North Cambridge, MA    [acrylic paint on MDO panels]
The Alewife Reservation Mural Project was sponsored by Friends of Alewife Reservation(FAR) in order to call attention to the only remaining wetlands in Cambridge, along the Little River. It was a collaboration with Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School students who worked with the artist over two summers to design and paint the mural which depicts the ecology of the Alewife Reservation wetlands.
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The Water Science Mural
   12 ft. X 6 ft.   University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI    [Acrylic, directly on wall]
This mural is painted directly on a wall of a conference room at the Water Science and Engineering Lab at The University of Wisconsin. The theme is the study of water science including biology, hydrology, limnology, and chemistry. The image of the hands holding water in the shape of Lake Mendota evokes stewardship of water as a vital goal of science. It was funded by the Wisconsin Art Board, through the Percent for Art Program.
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From Orchids to Octopi: the Evolution Mural
   10' X 28'   Central Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts    [Acrylic on canvas panels]
This mural about Charles Darwin and Evolution, was created as part of a modular set for an Underground Railway Theater production of "From Orchids to Octopi: an evolutionary love story", which was written by Melinda Lopez. The mural features a large portrait of Darwin at the center, with images swirling around him that speak to the mechanisms of evolution and the variety of species of life resulting from it. Artist Yetti Frenkel assisted with the painting of the murals. Currently the mural can be viewed at the new Northwest Science Building at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
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Biogen Community Lab Murals   |   Biogen Street Stencil Mural   |   Mystic River Mural Project   |   Mystic River - Close-Ups   |   Native Waters   |   Alewife Reservation Mural Project   |   The Water Science Mural   |   From Orchids to Octopi: the Evolution Mural
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