Worcester Public Art Group Announces 4 Artists to Create 5 WCUW Murals

Thursday, April 28, 2016

GoLocalWorcester Lifestyle Team

The Worcester Public Art Working Group has announced the artists who have been selected to create five murals on the southwest side of the WCUW building at 910 Main Street. The artists were selected by a panel of Worcester area college art professors to create murals.

"WCUW is honored to be a collaborator in the 2016 Worcester Make Art Everywhere Mural Project. Main South is one of Worcester’s more diverse neighborhoods; we look forward to doing our part by giving public art a place to live. The positive visual impact this project will bring to the Main South area is sure to act as a catalyst for other projects and developments up and down Main Street," said Troy Tyree, WCUW Executive Director.

The winners were chosen from a pool of 55 works done by 35 artists with varying degrees of mural art creation experience.

The Artists

• Doug Chapel is a cartoonist - illustrator - graphic designer - who uses the moniker of Action Geek to express his strong opinions through a regularly published editorial cartoon series in both Worcester Magazine and the InCity Times. His illustration work has been exhibited at The Bean Counter, CC Lowell, Theatre Cafe, and the Davis Gallery as well as self-published in over 100 local 'zines. His crowd-source retrospective “NonStop Action” is a 100-page full-color book collecting together over 20 years' worth of material.

• Andrei Krautsou, or “KEY DETAIL” is a muralist that has worked consistently towards developing his unique style since 2008. He studied architecture in Minsk, Belarus. Key Detail has recently been combining his love of travel and mural art by putting works up in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Greece, Poland, USA, Ukraine, and Belarus. He took part at exhibitions in Germany and the U.S. His street work has been documented and featured in several urban art books.

• Louis Hairapetian graduated from the school of the Worcester Art Museum in 1969. He recently retired from Worcester Academy and is currently working part time at Worcester Historical Society. He has painted for most of his life and now has time to pursue art all the time.

• Ryan Gardell is a visual artist, mixed media painter and graphic designer. His creative approach toward art is to combine painting, stencils, collage, drawing, and design into one artistic style. Currently, Ryan's focus is live painting and exhibiting at various music festivals and events both regionally and locally. He engages in many public art projects, murals, collaborations, workshops, studios, and other art related endeavors. As a day job, Ryan works for an art gallery as a custom frame builder.

The Project

WCUW will hold a celebration of the completed murals on Saturday, May 21 as part of their WCUW Annual meeting which commences at 6 p.m. followed by a concert featuring Satrah Leveque Band.

The project is part of the Worcester Cultural Coalition's Public Art Working Group and the City of Worcester's Cultural Development division's "MakeArtEverywhere" campaign.

WCUW

WCUW, Worcester’s community radio station, was founded in 1920 by Robert Goddard and incorporated by students at Clark University in 1973. The organization moved to its current 910 Main Street location in 1980 and the non-profit purchased the building in 1989.

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