Do you want create a beautiful place in the Lackawanna Valley? One that expresses your community’s values, goals, or identity for all to see? Turn an underutilized space into a place worth visiting? Valley In Motion can help you do all that with our Valley Murals program.
Murals are a great way to bring a community together to talk about their aspirations, what they love about where they live. In Forest City, the Trail Town Mural supported the borough’s reinvention as a fun and welcoming place for outdoor recreation. In Carbondale, the Trailhead Mural both celebrated the city’s industrial past and gathers residents to the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail. While VIM works with muralists from the Northeast Art Project, we also celebrate the local artists who have created dozens of murals in the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valley.
There are other great benefits of murals, which communities can employ with a variety of tactics and price tags. They can make a community more walkable, creating an interesting destination to go to and gather. They can improve community engagement, providing voices to residents about how public art can reflect their aspirations. They can imprint a community brand, a public symbol of how they want visitors to understand their home. Murals can attract customers to a business district, create landmarks to orient visitors, or commemorate people and events important to a community’s history and self of self.
Contact VIM if you want a high-quality, lasting, meaningful mural in your community. We will discuss options with you, help you fundraise, and manage the project. We coordinate the artists, secure owner agreements, and facilitate community engagement. Support an arts economy while also promoting pride, progress, and purpose in the Lackawanna Valley!
The murals pictured above were financed in part by a grant from the Community Conservation Partnerships Program, the Heritage Area program under the administration of the Pennsylvania Department of the Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation.