This playful and vibrant piece celebrates the art and culture of Eastern Europeans living in Toronto and Bloorcourt Village, which I’m glad to call my home. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my father who immigrated from Czech Republic to Canada in 1969, in order to live a better life and for which I’m eternally grateful.
This Bell box is a modernist twist on furniture design to invoke feelings of optimism about the flourishing of home furniture businesses in the area.
This Bell box visualizes the diversity of Asians and South Asians of Agincourt.
In this design of people in the neighbourhood, I wanted to make a busy scene that read from afar almost like abstract shapes and bursts of colours and when you come closer you can see that all of these shapes are people, the vibrant community, out and about on the streets of College West. Using a limited palette, I wanted to draw on my memories of the people I’ve seen in this neighbourhood from the many times I passed by these streets. I drew people of various ages and body types to represent the diversity in this neighbourhood. (Bellbox Murals)
I chose to create a bicycle design as a tribute to those Toronto streets that have really made it safe for cyclists to bike on. Cycling is my main mode of transportation around the city and Shaw is a beautiful tree covered street that is a pleasure to bike down. (Bellbox murals)
Bell Box Murals Invitational 2021
Bell Box mural project
Medium: Spray paint, markers
Bell Box Murals
Bell Box mural for Duke Heights BIA
Bell Box murals project for Scarborough
Sponsored by the local BIA and Welland City Council working with Bell Box Mural Project and BCE.
Artist: Leanna Gennuso Year: 2019
Naz Nahidi’s tribute to the Parachute Club on Duncan at Queen St.
Julii McMillan’s tribute to Martha & the Muffins.
Painted for Bell Box Murals by artist Khaula Mazhar. Created July 2021 inspired by the therapeutic flowing movements of jellyfish shared through Ripley Aquarium’s jellyfish cam on their website.
Bell Box Mural Project, Ward 3, New Toronto, in collaboration with Lakeshore Arts. Wondering what all the hands are doing? They relate to the industrial past of the New Toronto neighbourhood. Campbell’s Soup (tomato), Good Year (tire), Anaconda Copper and Brass (pipe) , Continental Can (tin) and others called this area home and made it an epicentre of industry in the early 20th century.
Bell Box painted by Victoria Day inspired by the Korean art of ‘dancheong’.
Bellbox Mural Project
Yasaman Mehrsa
Bell Box Mural for @neighbourhoodloveto project in Etobicoke, October 2020.
Artist: Yasaman Mehrsa
Etobicoke ( 3840 Lakeshore Blvd West )
August 2020
Artist: Yasaman Mehrsa
This was my first independent street art project. Last year I completed the Mural Arts Career Development Program with Mural Routes, and this year I went back to university at OCAD. Both these experiences gave me the confidence I needed to take on this project. I had dozens of positive comments from passers-by and neighbours; other people honked and waved, and neighbours brought me glasses of water. It was a very encouraging experience, I can’t wait to paint more someday. Alex Calder Karagianis
My design is based on word search game, in every square I have a minimal design of the living elements ( nature, sport, people, cars, entertainment, motivation, animals,…), and the letters for the word “Oshawa” is circled.
Artist: Yasaman Mehrsa
July 2019
Artist: Yasaman Mehrsa
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