This project for Eugene‘s Municipal Court community resource room brought the color and beauty of our native plant community as a metaphor to a space that provides services for those going through the community court system. It is a meeting space for helping folks get a leg up and out of the toughest situations our community faces in homelessness, addiction, employment and mental health. Truly an honor to paint for the fantastic ladies of community court and get to know such a compassionate and powerful team. Thanks to Urban Canvas for coordinating and a successful first time working together!
Featured native plants, include: pacific dogwood, California poppy, salmonberry, columbine, camas, maidenhair fern, sword fern, trillium, fawn lily, delphinium, bleedingheart, checkermallow, monkeyflower
Street painting at the yearly Madonnari street painting event known as Art Along the Rogue. I foraged around my neighborhood and found gorgeous colors and textures in apples, figs, wilting flowers, crinkled leaves and featured my fiddle in the center.
Native and endangered species mural featuring chanterelles, Oregon Grape, Swallowtail Butterfly, Deer Fern, Bleeding Heart, Camas, a Mason Bee, California Poppy, Lupine, and many others!
I was honored to paint for the new Portland Living Building, a truly incredible space that is paving the way for others to learn from. After a year in the making of outdoor research, site visits and design drafts, I created each mural to represent a local ecoregion. This series brings together my rural Oregon roots & natural history, love of these wild places and bold design inspired by the fibonacci spiral.
Native and endangered species mural for Swallowtail Spirits with painting assistance from A3 high school students.
Eugene Ballet Mural. It was such an honor to paint these magnificent dancers from the Eugene Ballet Company on this new building with the help of Lucas Brinkerhoff. @lucas_brinkerhoff_art. We studied the muscles and bone structure of these bodies to bring them to life and incorporate them into the abstract background. Thanks to Josh Neckels and Dustrud Architecture for bringing me on to create this custom piece for the new home of so many wonderful arts and culture orgs in Eugene.
Photo Credit: Chris Becker and Lucas Brinkerhoff
Commissioned for Eugene Public Library, this is a playable public art piece for musicians to enjoy downtown. The design I painted on the surface of this Spinet piano features native plants of Indian paintbrush, maidenhair fern and lupine in vibrant colors. Abstracted book pages stand behind the plants in gold and blue, while accents of the original wood are throughout the piano.
Commission for City of Medford. Mural and Ceramic Installation located in Hawthorne Park Viaduct pillars under Interstate-5.
My team was commissioned to help revitalize this park's reputation from an unsafe and underused space into a vibrant welcoming public greenspace in downtown Medford. Today Hawthorne Park hosts music events, farmer's markets, dog parks and playgrounds.
Six pillars are painted with the Rogue Valley's landscapes, with each design featuring a native species in their habitat.
With the support of the Wildlife Images Center, we collected the stories and research of many characters including the Western pond turtle, blue heron, trout, salmon, rattlesnake, swallowtail butterfly, pollinators, insects, black bear and cougar.
As a local to Southern Oregon, this wildlife mural has been an experience of restoring reputation and relationship with the park as a vibrant space. It has also been an experience of portraying species that we humans fear or don't connect with. Our hope is that these images can help create a new relationship of respect and curiosity with the black bear, cougar, rattlesnake and others while continuing to honor and revitalize populations such as the salmon and honeybee.
See more progress images of this project at instagram.com/jessbrinkart.
Collaboration with Ecomurals and support by Lucas Brinkerhoff.
I was asked to design this mural for the Friendly Area Neighborhood under the theme “Building a Better, More Just and Equitable World”. I created this graphic colorful design after holding workshops with middle school students to brainstorm ideas for a Better World. Guess what they want to see in a better world? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Getting around by bike ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Access to healthcare⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Voting⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Animals, plants, insects⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
A healthy ocean and garbage cleanup⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Zero - waste⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Recycling⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Working together despite differences⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Friendship and understanding not divisions⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Racial equity⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Planting more trees⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Caring for our Home, the Earth⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Alternative energy and bicycles all around⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
All the good stuff!
This wall has history in Eugene, Oregon. Owned by Aqua Serene, this wall helped set the precedent for murals on businesses and gain permissions to put art on their buildings. The former fish mural held up pretty well for 30 years! Now it has a fresh transformation that suits both the coffee shop and Aqua serene with some requested hidden surprises.
'Working Forward, Weaving Anew'. 2017.
The City of Tacoma requested a contemporary historical mural for the downtown Prairie Line Trail public art walk. The design features stories of the cedar tree from the perspective of the first peoples in the Puyallup tribe. As the mural moves to the right, the history of cedar becomes a story of European commodities and production in the growing city of Tacoma. Research and collaboration took place with historians and the Puyallup tribe of Tacoma.
Exterior Mural and Plasma Cut Steel. 275' x 55'.
Location: 7 Seas Brewery and Taproom-2101 Jefferson Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402
Collaboration with EcoMurals. Steel fabricated by Lucas Brinkerhoff.
https://www.prairielinetrail.org/site/working-forward-weaving-anew