01 — The Brief
One night, one wall, three artists.
Pabst Blue Ribbon Sound Society — PBR's music-community program — booked a warehouse at 1700 Naud Street for a single evening and called it Women in the Arts: a free show benefiting the Lady Art Collective, with a performance by Kari Faux and a DJ set by Taja Barber.
Cornerstone brought in three artists — Alex Bowman, Ashley Lukashevsky, and me — to build the room. My piece was the wall: a hand-painted mural big enough to be the backdrop for the whole night, and loose enough that it never read like an ad.
02 — The Wall
Painted by hand, in my own alphabet.
I painted it on-site in my usual hand — fat navy outlines, flat color, a run of small friendly icons — with Paul Windle assisting on the wall. A woman in cat-eye shades. A SO FIRE flame. A palm tree, a flip phone, an ice-cream cone, orange lips, a lime-green car. Speech bubbles that say CALL ME and LET'S GO OUT!
The brand shows up exactly once — a little Sound Society tallboy drawn into the crowd of icons, the same size and weight as the hot dog next to it.
November 6, 2018. Doors at eight, done by eleven. The wall was up for exactly one evening.
A backdrop, not a banner
Once the room filled, the mural stopped being art on a wall and started being the room — nearly every photo from the night frames someone against it.
Women in the arts, on the bill
Kari Faux performed, Taja Barber DJ'd, Peaches Food Truck fed everyone, and the door went to the Lady Art Collective.
The only one painted by hand
Alex Bowman's and Ashley Lukashevsky's walls were printed digitally and hung. Mine went up a brush at a time — Paul Windle assisting — in the days before doors.
1 night
Nov 6, 2018 · 8 to 11 PM · 1700 Naud St
3 artists
Bowman · Danico · Lukashevsky — a wall each
Lady Art
Collective — where the door money went
Sound Society's Women in the Arts happened once, on a Tuesday in November. The set, the food truck, the DJ, and the door money for the Lady Art Collective all packed up that night. The photos are what's left — and in most of them, someone is standing in front of the wall.
