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.
) Graham Bruce Elementary School |
) Graham Bruce Elementary School |
) Graham Bruce Elementary School |
) 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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) MacKenzie School, Grade 5 - #1 |
) MacKenzie School, Grade 5 - #2 |
) MacKenzie School, Grade 5 - #3 |
) Graham Bruce Elementary School entrance, June 2007 |
) Tillicum School, Grades 3 and 4 - #1 |
) Tillicum School, Grades 3 and 4 - #2 |
) Tillicum School, Grades 3 and 4 - #3 |
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. |
Institutional Murals
Institutional Murals
BC Childrens
Here are the photos from a mural project at BC Children's Hospital that was completed last spring. I worked with some amazing parents and patients adding flowers and butterflies to the hallway leading to the Oncology Ward. In September we painted in the main section of the ward, working with kids and parents who fill me with awe and admiration for their strength and positive attitudes.
BC Children's Hospital MRI Waiting Room Mural
BC Children's Hospital Tub Room Mural
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This recent mural project at BC Children's Hospital transformed a windowless, institutional looking tub room into a brighter and friendlier place for kids to enjoy bath time. This mural was sponsored by the terrific Team Finn Foundation.
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."
Commercial Drive Laneway Boats Mural
Commercial Drive Laneway Boats Mural
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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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Residential MuralsResidential Murals
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Community Garden
McSpadden
On September 29th about 50 people came out to paint a community mural at the garden at McSpadden Park on Victoria Drive. My design, created after consultation with a panel of gardeners, was approved by Park Board.
BCCH CEILING TILES
What do kids see when they are lying on a table in an examination or treatment room at BC Children's Hospital? In many rooms, they are looking at ordinary while ceiling tiles. But BCCH is changing that...this is the second set of ceiling tiles I've painted. The first was parrots and musical notes. The tiles are popped out of the ceiling in the morning and brought out for me to work on. They are completed and ready for reinstallation at the end of the day. These tiles are alternated with plain tiles in a pattern centred on the patient's point of view.
GRANDVIEW PARK MURAL
Over 60 community volunteers of all ages participated in a giant paint-by-number mural that wraps around the fieldhouse in this well used local park (1200 block Commercial Drive). After just a week, the mural was damaged by graffiti taggers, but volunteers are currently working to restore it. This 'temporary art installation' will be on view until July when the park will be closed for redevelopment and renovation.
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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