If youve ever wanted to try your hand at painting a mural but never had the wall space to do so safely, nows your chance.
Louisville Visual Art, a nonprofit headquartered in Portland, recently reopened time slots for artists of any skill level to use their LVA Free Wall, an outdoor surface on which local artists can sketch out [a] vision to scale, try spray painting techniques, or try out [their painting] skills on a textured wall.
To sign up, fill out the Google form at this link.
The LVA Free Wall opened last July in collaboration with The Healing Walls Project as a way of making the practices of mural painting and street art safer and more accessible to the public, especially communities of color.
This article appears in January 19, 2022.