American Mural Project to celebrate work of educators

WINSTED —The American Mural Project (AMP) will host “Inspired,” an art show celebrating education through a show of works by those who teach and inspire, May 7 to 14, in Whiting Mills, 100 Whiting Street, Winsted.

Submissions may be dropped off until Sunday 10 a.m.-noon .or by arrangement at AMP’s Art House, 74 Whiting Street, Winsted. All educators — anyone who works in an inspirational, mentoring, or educational capacity with younger generations — may submit work. One or two pieces are accepted, any medium. All pieces will be available for sale.

The exhibit and sale will be May 7 to 14, during Teacher Appreciation Week and Mother’s Day (May 13), 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Whiting Mills, 100 Whiting Street, Winsted.

The opening reception is on Thursday, May 10, 5-8 p.m., also in Whiting Mills. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists, tour the artist studios, and enjoy refreshments while perusing the art show.

For specific question about the art show or submitting artwork, please contact Christine Mitchell: christine@americanmuralproject.org.

Launched in 2002 by artist Ellen Griesedieck, the American Mural Project (AMP) is creating the largest indoor collaborative artwork in the world—a mural 120 feet long, 48 feet high, and up to ten feet deep. The mural is a tribute to American workers and highlights what has defined the country over the last century. It seeks to inspire, to educate, to invite collaboration, and to reveal to people of all ages the many contributions they can make to American culture. Nothing like it exists in the world.

More than 15,000 children and adults have helped create pieces of the mural, which will be housed in two former mill buildings on Whiting Street in Winsted, Connecticut. Renovations are expected to finish in summer 2018.

Support for the American Mural Project has been provided by the Newman’s Own Foundation, Institute of International Education/ Ford Foundation, the Maximillian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, Arconic (formerly Alcoa), the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut, Northwest Community Bank, the Aetna Foundation, Stanley Black & Decker, the Draper Fund, the Diebold Foundation, and the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, among others.