Murals
Eileen Mosca has never seen a wall she didn't want to paint. She has done murals in New York, Boston, and Jerusalem as well as in Vancouver and its suburbs. In addition to residential, institutional and commercial murals, she has worked with school children and community groups on large and small-scale mural projects.
School Murals
Every Spring since 1992 Eileen has worked as artist-in-residence in numerous Vancouver elementary schools. She has worked with grade 3 and 4 students at Garibaldi, Dickens, Mackenzie, Mt Pleasant, Tillicum False Creek, and other schools to create indoor and outdoor murals. Every child in the selected grade participates in planning, discussing, designing and painting the mural with Eileen.
) Dickens School |
) Dickens school lockers |
) Mackenzie dragons |
) Mackenzie Dragons |
) Mackenzie Space Wall |
) Mackenzie playground |
) Mackenzie playground |
) Mackenzie Fountain Wall |
) Garibaldi Earthquake Box |
) Garibaldi Earthquake Box |
) Garibaldi School Jungle |
) Garibaldi Seashore |
) False Creek School Gym |
) Mackenzie First Nations Mural |
) Mackenzie First Nations Mural |
) First Nations Mural |
) CEFA Junior Kindergarten, North Vancouver |
) CEFA Junior Kindergarten, North Vancouver |
) Cooking School Mural on Roll Shutters |
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) Graham Bruce Elementary School entrance, June 2007 |
Institutional Murals
BC Children's Hospital, Sunnyhill Hospital and facilities in Surrey and Burnaby feature murals designed and painted by Eileen.
) BC Children's Hospital |
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Commercial Murals
One recent mural commission in North Vancouver involved working from the top of a ladder in a skylight well.
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Office Project
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Gourmet Warehouse
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Anton's Restaurant
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Community Murals
Designing and organizing community murals in connection with the Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre's anti-graffiti program is one of Eileen's favourite volunteer activities. She creates simple designs that are suitable for painting by people of all ages and artistic abilities, outlining the mural elements and indicating the colours for each area. The Florida Market mural, shown above, was completed in July 2003. It involved over 30 community residents who participated in what was called " Vancouver's largest paint-by-number project."
Florida Market: Commercial and Napier
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Community Mural 2005: Victoria and Kitchener
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William and Victoria
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Music Project
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Graham Bruce Elementary School Murals
| Eileen recently worked with grade 5 and 6 students at Graham Bruce Elementary School in Vancouver to create a mural based on a sustainable future. These classes have been connected to the UBC Farm program, and through gardening and field trips they are very familiar with environmental and local food initiatives. After spending time discussing and brainstorming the content of the mural with all 50 students, Eileen worked with a smaller group of kids to turn everyone's ideas and drawings into a mural design that expressed their views and hopes for a 'green future.' She outlined this on a 100 ft wall and then each child spent an hour or more painting the mural with Eileen's guidance. |
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BC Hydro
Before and After
In late March 2009, Eileen used the kids' art to paint another
padmount transformer. This one, at the foot of Davie Street on the
seawall in Vancouver, includes the images and words from children
attending the workshops she conducted at Trout Lake, Strathcona and
Roundhouse Community Centres.
Hundreds of people passed by and
commented positively on this high visibility padmount. Neighbours and
tourists expressed their appreciation of the children's words and
pictures as well as their wish that similar electrical boxes in the city
be transformed in this way.
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Working with Children and BC Hydro
Working with BC Hydro's Powersmart team, Eileen conducted 6 workshops with children across the city. The kids created art that expressed their vision of a healthy environment. Eileen then painted their designs on this padmount transformer in July 2008:
For information on custom murals, please contact the artist: info@eileenmosca.com
