All photos and video copyright of IPaintMyMind When PepsiCo in New York reached out to us about creating a custom mural for the new Pepsi offices in The Historic Old Post Office Building that straddles the Eisenhower Expressway, we were thrilled to get a project that was so perfectly...
Feb 26, 2021Black art has been the driving force for much of American cultural history. Whether jazz, rap, the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, street art, hiphop, or spoken word: most uniquely American art forms owe their existence to pioneering black artists. This is no different when it comes to the...
Feb 22, 2021Although the summer’s explosive Black Lives Matter reckoning on race and equity in America has mellowed through the fall months, the activism and organizing which constitutes the BLM movement continues daily. And the conversations which began in the last few months are no less critical to the country going...
Feb 08, 2021Sam Kirk is a truly amazing artist and human. Beyond making incredible colorful mural art, and paintings suffuse with optimism, she is a community advocate and a Board Member at IPMM. Sam is the voice of the artist community on our Board of Directors, and is an integral part...
Nov 23, 2020The Chicano murals movement encompasses the explosion of public art on the walls of buildings across the Southwest. It was the visual arts wing of the Chicano political movement, or El Movimiento, that took hold in the 1970s. The Chicano movement arose from prior moments of Mexican-American resistance, such...
Nov 16, 2020At IPaintMyMind, one of our very favorite things is getting mural commissions! We love helping you execute your dreams and commission your own mural for your office or workspace – we even help schools with commissioning murals too. We also love how our beautiful murals give back to local...
Oct 19, 2020The history of Mexican murals is intimately tied up in revolution, radical self-determination, and innovation. It is a long and storied history, overlapping with the use of murals as political tools elsewhere in Latin and South America. Murals are also a prominent avenue of anticolonial speech in the Latin...
Oct 05, 2020Murals have a long and tumultuous history as an art form. They are often political, and can serve as catalysts for change or protest. They can also be important tools for establishing the identity and artistic lineage of a place. Murals are visual stories, and in Chicago, you can...
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