Linwood Ct Bike Locker Mural
Spring 2024
Location: 243 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
Partners: Just A Start
Lead Artist: Jack O’Hearn
Teen Artists: Ayani Preston-Foster, Bontu Diriba, Carla Michel, Ethan Tejeda Rodriguez, Kayli Charles, Lucy Sylvain, Ny’Jaeya Roc, Preceous Gomez, Rhyan Montes Wells, Harrison Narcisse, Sun Naisha Narcisse
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The mural for the bicycle lockers at the Linwood Ct apartments was created in the Spring of 2024 by youth artists from The Community Art Center in collaboration with artist and CAC Program Manager, Jack O’Hearn. For this digital mural, teens created characters and comic strips based on themes of family, friendship, mental health, community, love, nature, and bicycle safety.
To create the background design, teens dipped remote control cars in paint and drove them around on a large surface of paper to create tire tracks. The tracks were then digitally manipulated to create the pattern for the background. The idea was to create an overall pattern that would fit with the bicycle theme.