"The Longhouse Mural" - Estacada, OR
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The rich traditions of the Northwest Native People are pictured in this mural.
Waymark Code: WMBEH9
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2011
Views: 6
Designed by: John Freese
Located: Thriftway Market, 280 S. Broadway
The local Artback muralist guild celebrated their seventh anniversary by painting a sixty-by- thirty foot mural on the wall of the local Thriftway. "The Longhouse Mural" provided instant enhancement for the downtown area, and guild artists were pleased to have public recognition of their community work. They sold an unprecedented number of postcards depicting previous murals.
A group of very talented local artists banded together in 1994 and painted the first mural in Estacada - the ArtBack Artists were born.
Since then, the group has added their handiwork to dozens of buildings in the community, featuring murals depicting Native Americans, Estacada in its heyday as a timber town, pioneers on their way to Oregon City and numerous other themes. Each mural is largely completed in a weekend during the last full weekend in July by members of the Artback.
The annual Estacada Summer Celebration arts and music festival was created in 2000 to celebrate the ArtBack's annual mural-in-a-weekend project, which takes place every 4th weekend in July.
These murals have made Estacada a very special place to live. Estacada is growing as a community that really cares about its surroundings and the arts. Creating is the essence of our purpose and is imperative to our progress as a humanity.
Estacada is a small town of around 2800 located 30 miles southeast of Portland, Oregon. It is the art community that has encouraged the murals of Estacada you see there. They are painted on various businesses about town.
City: Estacada
Location Name: Building
Artist: John Freese
Date: 2001
Media: House paint on wall
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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