Residency with AARP and Lane Arts Council at Springfield High School, guiding 14 students and two AARP members through the mural design to completion process. Our month of collaboration led to a mural of multicultural themes, celebrating the unity and diversity present at the school and in the painted city of Springfield itself.
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.
Illinois Valley Children’s Library
This reading tree sculpture collaboration between Lucas Brinkerhoff and I lives in the Illinois Valley children’s library.
These steel pieces from the reading tree were a whole new world of creating designs to then cut them out with a plasma cutter and grinder. The final step was banging away at them with hammers in a vice to bring out their curvature. I missed paintbrushes for just a minute.
Hand plasma cut and CNC plasma cut Steel and Copper
with Fir and Plywood
Chalk wall illustrations for the wonderful Coffee Plant Roaster www.coffeeplantroaster.com
Brilliant colors have emerged on this memorial wall mural commission honoring the late Dr. Edwin Coleman, the civil rights activist, professor and jazz bassist home to Eugene, Oregon. It was incredible to learn about this great man over several months and share his legacy through an illustrated story.
The Gordon Hotel requested a mural design for the facade of their art hotel downtown. This piece features my favorite Oregonian flower from childhood, the Indian Paintbrush, or Castilleja.
Growing up in Oregon, several teachers taught me reverence for our landscape and I use art to return the favor to the next generations. Identifying and painting the native plants of my home state is a lifelong project. Indian Paintbrush, a favorite native plants in Oregon, is featured in this design alongside a companion plant Balsamroot Arrowleaf. The piece is meant to show a metaphorical hand presenting this gift from the land as a metaphor for times right now when flowers still bloom.
I was asked by Siuslaw Middle School to represent the community and ecology of Florence, Oregon, it's native plants and it's cultural heritage, all while working in some blue and gold Vikings school spirit for their gymnasium.
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.
The Inn at the Prom in Seaside, Oregon asked for a feature wall mural that was abstract, simple and colorful while including ocean life. Since botanicals are one of my favorites, this was a lovely partnership resulting in a mural featuring Seaside treasures like bull kelp, coral and sand dollars. Their bright brand colors directed the color palette for this selfie wall.
The Inn at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon requested these lovely muted colors from their branding guide and I may be hooked on these dimmed down complementary palettes. The mural features the famous Haystack Rock and species to be found there: gooseneck barnacles, starfish, puffins, clams and kelp.
Civic Winery is an innovative natural winery and bottle shop. They asked me to get urban and creative with their signage while using the historic architecture of the 1937 Civic Building as the canvas. With letters from an old Italian typeface, I hand painted their signage and created three abstract mural paintings on the facade of the building.
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.
Coffee Plant Roaster asked me to enliven these blue bathroom walls with coffee plants!
Visit them for fresh ground coffee and their fantastic food menu all made in house.
'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
It all begins with an idea.
Botanical Mandala Mural in copper, blue, green and red to compliment the space.
Additional bedroom mandala in blue.