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Make everyday Earth Day Support Campus Recycling ;; Steel mug plastic mug T-shirt canvas bags reusable lunch bags 4 - h _~ _d a/V S^kLE May 17th EMU Main Lobby 10am - 2pm Actor Luke Performing May/June 2000 Robinson Theatre University Theatre's Nicholas Nickleby has a Pulse. Do you have one? Message boards Your forum for dialogue on topics from student government to entertainment. WWW.dailyeittCrclIcLcOltl Check your Pulse, the Oregon Daily Emerald's entertainment section, every Thursday. City endorses graffiti walls ■What began as a forum for youths to express themselves has gained the city’s and shop owner’s support By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald A group of six local artists are putting the finishing touches on a graffiti mural that was recently added to the local outdoor art scene thanks to a grant from the city of Eugene. The city granted $25,000 to the Lane Arts Council to administer Art Wall, a program which funded the 10-by-75 mural. Lizzy Hughes, coordinator of the program, said she is excited young people have the chance to paint outdoors. “It’s really exciting to see kids be involved with public art,” Hughes said. Graffiti waiters often lament that there is no open legal forum for them to express their ideas or display their work, and the mural project is designed to start solving this problem. Though the project is designed as a way to give high school-aged students a creative outlet, it has expanded to accept any interested artists who don’t fit the criterion for lead artist. The grant goes to paying coor dinators and buying supplies such as paints and special face masks. The mural is located downtown on the wall of Shoe-A Holic near Broadway Plaza. Don’t expect the initial mural to stay up long, however. Steve Lopez, one of the group’s leaders, said he hopes they can repaint the mural projects every month or two. “Art is supposed to be continu ously changing,” said Lopez, a University senior fine arts major. “I don’t think a mural should be permanent.” Ben Slichter, a Lane Community College student, finishes off his piece of the mural. There are currently three sepa rate groups of young artists work ing on the project at sites around Eugene. One group, led by Dylan Freeman, a local artist whose wares can be found at the Satur day Market, completed a wall on 444 Lincoln Street. Lopez leads the group of five that is designated to work on the Shoe-A-Holic wall. Lopez also contributed his own talent to the wall. The third group, led by Kari Johnson, is made up of female brush artists and is in the planning process for a mural. Other than the background, which was painted with rollers, the Shoe-A-Holic mural is done entirely using spray cans. Each artist used purple, orange, teal and green to create continuity. “It would be so beautiful to see walls painted everywhere,” Lopez said. Ben Slichter, a student at Lane Community College, used a mix ture of words and characters in his piece. “Painting, for me, is sort of like meditation,” he said. “You can put your life on the wall but it’s also a great way to educate other people. ” The next mural is tentatively scheduled to go up at the old Sears building downtown and will be a collaborative effort of the groups and any newcomers who join. Or ganizers continue scouting new mural locations, and after the Sears project it is uncertain where murals will go up and what their content will be. The possibility of doing murals with political and social messages is open. 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