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Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara — Artist Announcement! Earth Day Mural 2022 now underway!

by Community Contributor • April 11, 2022 • Comments Off

Community Environmental Council (CEC), Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), and Paseo Nuevo are delighted to announce that artist Maria Arroyo has been selected to paint this year’s Earth Day Mural!

Selected from submissions from across Ventura, Santa Barbara, and SLO counties, the 2022 Call For Entries prompted artists to submit their artistic concepts online alongside a proposal for a mural that expresses what Earth Day and Climate Leadership mean to them. Maria Arroyo’s concept was selected to appear on the Paseo Nuevo Arts Terrace Parking Deck adjacent to MCASB.

ABOUT MARIA ARROYO

Maria Arroyo (b. 1962) began drawing and painting in the 1980s as a participant in the Alpha Art Studio program. Since 2013, she has been an artist at Slingshot / Alpha Art Studio. Maria’s Latinx heritage gives her work a sense of magical realism. Her eccentric landscapes and iconic figures, often encompassed in ornate patterns, pull the viewer into a mythic world – suspended from the everyday without fully leaving it behind.

Slingshot / Alpha Art Studio is a non-profit progressive arts center in downtown Santa Barbara that supports artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The center promotes the creative practice, professional visibility, and inclusion of artists with IDD living in Santa Barbara County. Slingshot is a program of the Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara.

Read all about the Earth Day Mural, here on our website!

Maria Arroyo, and her supporting artist group, will begin painting the mural this week, with the help of community volunteers. Tune in to Paseo Nuevo’s Instagram Live to see the reveal of the finished mural Saturday, April 23, 2022, during the Earth Day Celebration at the Arlington Theater!

MCASB members provide crucial support for our groundbreaking exhibitions and innovative community programming. Membership offers a variety of ways to engage deeply with contemporary art and explore its myriad interactions within society and culture.

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