Monday, July 9, 2012

Monday Mural: Clothing Town

Clothing Town, a discount store at 34th Avenue and Foothill Blvd., added this mural to its wall in 2011.  The mural was made by many community volunteers with the guidance of the Eastside Arts Alliance, previously featured here and here.  The cultural and historic references in the mural no doubt educate some who view it.

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme's for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  You decide what constitutes a mural.  Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Looking forward to the murals posted this week.  Once you start looking, it's amazing how many you can find.

20 comments:

  1. oakland is becoming more and more a mural town. is there a diy tour of the murals?

    was in eureka in may and they have a mural tour. you can even download the tour online if you want to visit the murals.

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  2. I appreciate the various cultural images...makes the mural quite interesting.

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  3. Very colourful and busy mural. Amazing that it was all done by volunteers!

    Thank you for hosting. I've stretched the definition of mural once again in m entry this week and have posted a "sculptural/architectural mural". :-)

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  4. It's bright and breezy and fun, and I am all for anything that educates in an entertaining way to as wide a group as possible- nice one!

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  5. Great stuff - my post this week is a follow up to Chrissy's from last week

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  6. these volunteers must have had some good teachers!
    and I agree, you find so many great murals in Oakland. I always have to branch out far and wide to find mine!
    (not sure what happened to my thumbnail, but there is a post up)

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  7. Enlarging the photo aroused my curiosity. I saw lots of detail to view.

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  8. there's so much going on in this one! i really like how colorful it is.

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  9. Interesting that the store owner turned this into a community project.

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  10. Very colorful and so much to see, I like this.
    Thanks for hosting as always!
    Have a nice day.

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  11. I am amazed by the amount of Chicano influence in this one. Gorgeous for a big wall like that.

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  12. This one's quite elaborate. Colorful too.

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  13. It's great that the community got involved and that their names are on the bottom of the wall. They should be proud.

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  14. I always forget it is Monday until I see your blog! What a fun mural you found for today!

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  15. Gosh lots to take in there, looks great when pulled in even closer!

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  16. if you haven't already I'd love to see a book of your collection one day..great work!

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  17. I can imagine that such a collective endeavor could result in a colossal mess, yet that has not happened. Here again, the mural, although a collage of images and stories, is quite cohesive! How smart that the business are getting into the mural swing.

    [I'm behind on just about everything this week. A death in the family has had me scrambling to find air tickets to Toronto right in the peak season, but now that is settled and we fly on Saturday.]

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  18. This Is Only About 1/3 of the Full Mural. Also This Mural Was Organized by Two of the Defendants on The Fruitvale Gang Injunctions in Response to the proposed Gang Injunctions in the Fruitvale.

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