See it larger. Photo by Brendan.
Artist Thomas "Detour" Evans finished his mural on the side of the Joyce Kilmer Lower School on Baker Street in West Roxbury this week.
"It's done, and it's pretty awesome," Brendan, who captured the school's new look, said.
The work, titled, "Together We Rise, is one of several BPS murals funded through a program overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and Street Theory.
The bottom of the mural incorporates the words "Respect, Responsibility, Empathy, Inclusion and Equity," which are the school's official "core values."
Evans, who lives in Denver, recently won a commission for a hanging sculpture in a new terminal at that city's airport.
Earlier:
When the painting was still underway.
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Comments
Kids have something nice to
By Rwgfy
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 10:55pm
Kids have something nice to look at, when their art and music classes are cut by the BPS.
If only the money for this came from the BPS budget ...
By adamg
Wed, 08/07/2024 - 11:06pm
But it doesn't, it's from a separate, non-BPS program and includes funding from federal Covid relief funds.
But you've got your Melania jacket on, don't you.
That makes art classes cuts
By Rwgfy
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 2:06am
That makes art classes cuts alright how?
2:06am
By cybah
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 7:17am
Shouldn't you be in bed? You have school tomorrow since you seem to know so much about how BPS works.
Are you bring up this because you're upset they got rid of Finger Painting your Butthole 101 ?
Another nomination for the Uhub Hall of Fame
By anon
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 8:56am
But it's after 9am local time
By Brent Jeffries
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:21pm
But it's after 9am local time.
Woke = awake at all hours
By anon
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 4:38pm
Woke = awake at all hours
What is your suggestion for
By Scratchie
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 10:39am
What is your suggestion for increasing school funding for the arts?
Same recipe he has for
By xyz
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:10pm
Same recipe he has for everything: low effort one-liners that sound devastating in his own head.
Take 1% of the $1.8b raised by the millionaire tax
By robo
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 1:05pm
What’s the next problem that needs solving?
Thank you for clarifying where the $ came from...
By Toneye
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 6:35am
They all came out of the closet for this one on West Roxbury Connect on Facebook....
they always do
By cybah
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 7:50am
Those "community" (or town) facebook pages are a breeding ground for NIMBYism, Racism.. or rather anything that ends in -ism.
Sounds familar
By Username Unknown
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 8:25am
Oh yeah, that is the same thing that happens on this site.
oh yes
By lbb
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 9:07am
so much racism on uhub. mmhmm.
(score: the distant sound of hit dogs hollering)
How does this relieve Covid?
By anon
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 8:10am
How does this relieve Covid?
Because it brings joy to weary people
By adamg
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 9:21am
Not to some of the people in this discussion, perhaps, but the rest of us.
ARPA funds were designed to help communities get back on their feet after Covid, and the money came with relatively few strings attached, chief among those, it has to be spent by a certain date.
Boston was given $560 million to spend. The city spent (or is spending) about half of that on housing, with other big pieces going to replacing revenue lost due to Covid, dealing with climate change, job training and mental- and public-health programs.
And $26.2 million is going to "strengthen arts and culture and activate our neighborhoods," like, for example, through murals.
More from the mayor's office.
It's something people can
By Vicki
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 10:56am
It's something people can enjoy outdoors, without going inside during the current covid wave, or the ones after it.
Please, keep masking indoors and in crowds, get your booster vaccines, and stay home when you're sick.
What we need is for more people to go back to masking before they get sick, and better ventilation in schools, offices, and other places people gather. What we're getting is people saying we should "live with" covid, meaing that I should stop masking because seeing a stranger in an N95 reminds them that the virus exists.
Home remedies
By Angry Dan
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:00pm
NIMBY tears are a well-known restorative.
A "Woke" future
By ScottB
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:19am
LOL.
But the noses don't quite look right on any of those kids.
All the same nose
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 5:43am
Nasal equality for all!
Better than
By Wiffleball
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 7:33am
the creepy teeth on the mural at the tiny Trader Joe's on Boylston.
Are there
By TOFD
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 7:47am
no local artists???
Noses are difficult!
By Tim Mc.
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 8:29am
One of the hardest things to get right in drawing people.
The nose knows
By BostonDog
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 9:14am
They all look fine to me. It's a pretty nice mural.
No boogers
By blues_lead
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 9:16am
Ther's all about 5-7 years old and not a single one has a booger hanging out. Suspicious!
OK, we’re hours into this
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 9:21am
OK, we’re hours into this thread and no mention of relistate or select men yet? Folks, we’re slipping into complacent mediocrity here.
I did my part
By ScottB
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 10:14am
It's a "Woke" future!
So Intense
By Angry Dan
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 11:55am
I would have added some kids riding bikes for maximum triggering.
I like the cut of your jib
By adamg
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 2:22pm
Even better, some art in art: Kids on bicycles riding in front of the mural on Centre Street where they replaced Dapper O'Neil.
I've been busy
By Waquiot
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 2:46pm
But I assure you that at the next selectmen's meeting, I'll use the public comment period to note what a nice mural this is.
And yes, I'm happy that the windows don't have paint over them, which was my only criticism while it was being installed.
"Selectmen"?
By Gary C
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 8:20pm
Seems they were phased out in the 1800's.
I’m always impressed by how
By Frelmont
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 1:28pm
I’m always impressed by how muralists maintain perspective and scale. Nice job.
Kilmer Mural
By Sue
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 4:26pm
For those who dislike this mural and/or think it's going to bring down your property value, let's trade. We have two seriously dilapidated second floor porches to our left (one fully missing for months and months and the other completely rotted/missing too many spindles to count and on our right another home with peeling paint, falling shingles on its sides and a front porch the postman wouldn't step on for fear he'd fall through. Across my street and a few doors down is a property with so many tenants they were parking on the grass and now the owner wants a basement unit so MORE people can sardine into that property. I'd take this mural on my street any day of the week and twice on Sunday--it's simply stunning.
Grids, right?
By Tim Mc.
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 5:20pm
I've seen at least one mural crew lay down a grid first like you do in art class.
WR Connect Facebook page
By MassMouse
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 9:15am
Yeah, I’m going to admit that I poked the bear. There was a post from a woman basically saying that this beautiful artwork equated to graffiti. I just had to respond:
“Wow…based on this thread, so glad I don’t live in WR anymore. However, this narrow, pearl-clutching, lace Irish curtain attitude is everywhere.”
Probably not the best chosen words in the heat of the moment since I was called a racist By the original poster. So, I caused Donnybrook. (Think first, think again, walk away from the computer, think again. Then you can post…)
Well “Donnybrook” is itself
By HPboy
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 10:25am
Well “Donnybrook” is itself kinda inappropriate. No longer associated with Paddies causing uproar and disorder but a rather nice suburb of south side Dublin.
reactions are sad
By Bobp
Fri, 08/09/2024 - 12:49pm
The mural has tapped into the NIMBY, anti-woke, city is going to hell combo platter. The outrage is sad. As someone who graduated from there and lives 2 blocks away, I have no issues with this. The West Roxbury connect Facebook page sees this as the coming of the apocalypse