1000 Hopes for Waco Mural
- Description
- Creative Waco ARTprenticeship, 2018 This artwork at 315 S. University Parks Drive was developed through Creative Waco’s ARTPrenticeship program. Aspiring young creatives from Waco ISD high schools earn real world concept-to-completion mentored work experience during the 8-week program. Under guidance from local artist mentors, the apprentices created a fresh and eye-catching work of art that reflects the beauty of our community. The motif of cranes or birds taking flight is a symbol of hope and blessing in many cultures. The origami cranes are symbolic of how the creative skills that built our community are handed from one generation to the next, just as the skill of folding paper into a crane has been taught by one artist to the next for thousands of years. This mural symbolizes Waco emerging from the chaos of tornado, storms, floods, and turbulent history, to gradually take form and flight towards a horizon of hope. The students talked and designed around themes of hope, courage, and emerging from a past that we can’t influence into a future that we can. “1,000 Hopes for Waco” was created by artist mentors Will Suarez (lead designer), Cade Kegerreis, Megan Morris Major, and Sean Oswald. Apprentices were Naya Banda, Nadia Benett, Lizbeth Duarte -Tavera, Londell Gilmore, Charla Goosby, Magnolia Oliphant, Willie Padilla, Tamra Richie, Savana Salazar and Joseph Wlazlinski.
