Artist Mentoring

Mural painting mentorships connect emerging artists with established artists and arts administrators in mentor-mentee relationships, expanding knowledge, skills, and networks.

  • Bricks and Wagons

    Neighbourhood storeowners and residents, led by property owner Lefteris Karagianis, wanted to make a positive change in the Greenwood/Gerrard area of east Toronto, and felt that a public art project would demonstrate the artistic potential of the community.

  • Puzzle

    The concept of the ‘Puzzle Mural’ was developed by artist Elaine Teguibon as part of an independent study project for the Leadership Training in Mural Making program 2011. Elaine writes in her proposal “The Jigsaw puzzle represents the importance of creating the right links between people, communities and organizations ….A puzzle is a challenge, but there is a solution.”

  • Intersections

    This mural, entitled “Intersections,” was created by student artists as part of a youth summer training initiative run by Mural Routes. The artwork represents the intersection between fantasy and reality, depicting harmony between the faces of young people and their community at the junction of two roads.

  • Come Unity

    The mural is part of Amnesty International’s Project Urban Canvas, a mural series celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This richly symbolic mural, designed by a team of youth artists, portrays the passage of a gift from left to right, on a journey that arrives ashore on a sea of waves – representing a difficult journey towards human rights that settles on the shores of our communities.

  • Entitlement

    The mural is part of Amnesty International’s Project Urban Canvas, a mural series celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on article #28 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights which states: “Every individual is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized”. Each youth artist was responsible for creating a panel sharing opinions regarding Freedom and ‘Entitlement’. Images of education, human rights leaders, and different stages of life, rights to owning property, and a unity tree are some of the dominant images present throughout the mural.

  • Reflections

    The theme of a “media art gallery” was chosen by the youth to reflect their views on how media and advertising affect youths today. Each youth artist created an individual piece within the mural to comment on issues of materialism, body image and self-reflection.

  • Diversity

    “Like the branches of a tree, mingling with the roots of a mushroom, touched by the butterfly’s antenna and caressed by nature’s wind. Different elements and organisms co-existing to ensure life’s progression – we too exist in this organic beauty.”

  • Chrysalis

    Working with themes of metamorphosis, transition and migration, members of Bluffers Tales told a series of stories to the mural artists, which were then translated into a design that celebrates the experiences of community members who left their homes to come to Canada.