GLASSBORO LEGACY

Glassboro Legacy

Acrylic Paint on Polytab, Digital Drawing printed on Polytab, Stained Glass Mosaic and Colored Mirror, QR codes leading to web, and video content

2021

15’ x 57’

105 W. High St., Glassboro, NJ

Glassboro Legacy acts as a timeline of the history of Glassboro, New Jersey. It begins with a reference to the area’s original inhabitants the Lenni Lenape people. From there, it extends forward in time through the founding of the industry that gave the town its name, a civil rights march in the 1960’s, and finally, with a group of graduates looking toward the future. The mural is a multimedia piece that incorporates painting, glass mosaic, digital drawing, and the use of QR codes that direct the viewer to different related websites.

This project was a collaboration with Philadelphia muralist Eric Okdeh and was funded by Creative Glassboro, Rowan University, and the Township of Glassboro.

A look at the process

The design process sees a lot of elements come and go. The design continues to evolve through regular contact with community members and facilitators. This video shows a few of the iterations this design went through.

This image is a portion of the design broken down into a paint-by-numbers. This process allows us to get a wider variety of community members involved with the painting of the mural through workshops called community paint days.

Our palette station during a community paint day for Glassboro Legacy.

Community paint day.

In this project I incorporated the use of digital drawing. Elements of the mural were drawn on my iPad using a program called Procreate and then printed on polytab. This is a process video exported from Procreate.

The digital drawings printed on polytab.

My collaborator, Eric Okdeh, often works with glass mosaic. For this project it made perfect sense to do so since the town itself derived its name from that industry.

Installation of mosaic.

Installation of digital drawing print.

Digital drawing prints being prepared for installation.