{"id":12921,"date":"2022-07-25T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=12921"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:45:10","slug":"viva-fall-river-is-bringing-new-life-to-blank-walls-three-new-murals-are-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/viva-fall-river-is-bringing-new-life-to-blank-walls-three-new-murals-are-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Fall River is bringing new life to blank walls. Three new murals are in progress."},"content":{"rendered":"

FALL RIVER \u2014 The city is getting a lot more colorful, and\u00a0Viva Fall River<\/a>\u00a0couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit community organization is sponsoring the painting of three large murals in and around downtown Fall River, and on Friday invited the community to a\u00a0“View and Chew\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a chance to see local and international artists do their work and grab a treat from some food trucks.<\/p>\n

On Pocasset Street, the former\u00a0Herald News<\/em>\u00a0building was being splashed at street level with vibrant colors and patterns by\u00a0local artist Greg Pennisten<\/a>. Three stories up, where the newspaper\u2019s logo once greeted visitors coming from Somerset across the Braga Bridge,\u00a0Portuguese artist Diogo Machado, aka Add Fuel<\/a>, had covered it up; he stood in a boom lift, painting that wall with a pattern resembling Portuguese tiles.<\/p>\n

Viva Fall River<\/a>\u00a0Executive Director Patti Rego said the muralists are creating art that broadcasts the city\u2019s culture. \u201cThey do it in a way that preserves the tradition in the neighborhood but it tries to bring some life to the neighborhood and involve the community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Viva Fall River is working with the Fall River Arts and Culture Coalition\u00a0and nonprofit organization\u00a0Beyond Walls<\/a>\u00a0to install the murals. FRACC is a collaborative, member-based organization dedicated to advancing arts and culture in the city to create a vibrant, inclusive\u00a0and sustainable creative economy.<\/p>\n

Beyond Walls Vice President Philip Fagan said the muralists\u00a0work on tight schedules and tighter budgets \u2014 the artists will have two weeks to complete their works.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission is to activate space to strengthen communities,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n

‘Keeping with the character of the city’<\/h2>\n

The old\u00a0Herald News<\/em>\u00a0building is now owned and occupied by\u00a0Potter\u2019s Printing<\/a>, a family-owned custom print shop that puts designs on everything from socks to shot glasses. Their building itself is now being decorated in lively fashion.<\/p>\n

Penniston, originally from Swansea, stood in a scissor lift painting the exterior of a building that once held the paper\u2019s printing press. From his spray cans emerged polka dots, flowers, swirls of color.<\/p>\n

\u201cVisually it\u2019s based off of old blockprint patterns from fabric produced in a mill that used to be right down the street,” Penniston said, referencing the\u00a0American Printing Co.,<\/a>\u00a0which flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries just south on Anawan Street. “Blockprint patterns from the early 1900s \u2014 just kind of taking those and recycling them, making them much larger, in keeping with the character of the city and things that were produced here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really beautiful. It lifts an area that really is kind of blah and makes it a little different,” said state Rep. Alan Silvia, on hand to watch the masters at work.\u00a0“The tile one is Portuguese tiles, which is popular everywhere \u2014 in the hallways and houses of Portugal, those tiles are everywhere. But now it sort of brings the culture here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about the new murals popping up in Fall River:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.heraldnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/2022\/07\/25\/viva-fall-river-create-three-public-art-murals-downtown\/10132787002\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read about the new murals bringing more color and culture to the city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[110,17,108,50,104],"class_list":["post-12921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-community","tag-community-events","tag-murals","tag-viva-fall-river"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19446,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12921\/revisions\/19446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}