"The Power and Joy in Access to All Stories" Saint Michael's College community mural, 2022
"Fair Hausing Drive" community mural, Burlington VT, 2022
North Country Union Middle School community mural, 2022
Murals
Juniper Creative Arts mural initiatives and community engagement have helped vulnerable and fractured communities come together to creatively solve issues that affect their everyday lives.
Each mural is incredibly unique to your school, community, and neighborhood. We call them fingerprints.
During a community mural project, we help facilitate planning, designing and implementation of the entire project. We facilitate interactive workshops to create a base concept and develop a mural design, direct hands-on artmaking workshops, and oversee community artwork contributions.
We can also be commissioned to design and install a mural on any surface. This process is layered and will be discussed as part of an intake meeting.
We have extensive experience creating interior and exterior large-scale murals utilizing a variety of media and substrate material, as well as experience in preservation and anti-vandalism.
Additionally, we can be hired to consult on the planning and implementation of public art initiatives.
Juniper Creative painting Starchild mural at Waterville Elementary
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The Afro-Pollinators
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Phoenix of Transmutation community mural part of Lamoille Art & Justice Project • 18' x 25' • Stowe Middle School, Stowe, VT • 2022
North Country Union Middle School community mural • 10' x 40' • Derby, VT • 2022
Nebizun community mural, Hyde Park Elementary • 8' x 16' • Hyde Park, VT • 2022
Starchild community mural, Waterville Elementary • 8' x 16' • Waterville, VT • 2022
Morina the Medicine Woman community mural, Old North End Community Center • 20' x 20' • Burlington, VT • 2021
Kelis the Afronaut community mural, Champlain Elementary School • 20' x 33' • Burlington, VT • 2020
“Liberation Thru Imagination” East and South wall details • Pine Street Studios • 2021
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“The creation of public art is a complex unfolding that requires thoughtful navigation, artistic excellence and experience in public settings. Juniper Creative brought these unique skills to our project in Burlington and more. They understood the complicated dynamics of our urban site. They used artistry and intention to reflect joyful, vibrant black youth who live in our community, and the universal human relationship to nature and family. And most critically for public art, they knew how to mobilize and engage participants into a genuine and meaningful creative experience. I love how they seed an idea, but allow it to iterate through the contributions of the individuals they incorporate and engage. As a result, Liberation Through Imagination contributes an uplifting, positive community experience to Pine Street every day. It is public art at its most powerful.”
—Sara Katz, Burlington City Arts
Spotlight Projects
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2022• "Dandelion Wishes" mural part of Lamoille Art & Justice Project • Stowe Rec Path • exterior concrete acrylic paint, 58’ x 9’
2021 • "Wall of Respect: Luminaries of Justice and Liberation" mural • Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, acrylic paint, 1100 square foot vaulted ceiling
2020 • "The Watcher" mural • Café Mamajuana, aerosol and acrylic paint, 12’ x 20’
2020 • "All That Jazz" mural • Old North End Community Center, aerosol paint, 40’ x 5’
2020 • “Lady Liberation” Ben & Jerry’s VT Pledge to Vote mural • Arts Riot (now at Ben & Jerry’s corporate office), digital illustration, 8’ x 8’
2020 • "Nourishment" mural • American Flatbread-Middlebury Hearth, aerosol and acrylic paint, 6’ x 6’
“The vision and beauty that Will and Jennifer brought to our silo project has just been so energetic and creative and joyful! We love working with them, their art is incredible, and being able to look at that silo every day is just fantastic – the world as it can be!”
—Jen Kimmich, The Alchemist Brewery
The Alchemist silo mural • the Alchemist Brewery, aerosol paint, 32’ x 43’
Community Murals
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2023 • Johnson Elementary School community mural • Johnson, VT • acrylic paint • 6.5’ x 16’
2023 • “Protect the Youth, Secure the Future” community mural, Greater Burlington YMCA • Burlington, VT • acrylic paint • 9.5’ x 18.5’
2022 • "The Power and Joy in Access to All Stories" Saint Michael's College community mural • Colchester, VT • aerosol and acrylic paint • 25'h
2022 • "Fair Hausing Drive" community mural • Burlington, VT • acrylic and aerosol paint, 31' x 8'
2022 • Hartford Area Career and Technology Center community mural (conceptualized by HACTC students) • White River Junction, VT • acrylic and aerosol paint • 8’ x 19’
2021 • Addison County Parent Child Center community mural (conceptualized by ACPCC participants and staff), acrylic and parachute cloth
2020 • MLK Day of Action community mural (conceptualized by MUHS and Middlebury College students) • Middlebury Union HS • aerosol and acrylic paint • 8’ x 8’
2018 • Mosaic Center for Students of Color community mural • University of Vermont, acrylic and aerosol paint, 10' x 20'
2018 • Gentle Ripples community mural • Middlebury College, acrylic and aerosol paint
2018 • Butler College community mural • Princeton University • acrylic and aerosol • 5' x 40"
2017 • AFC community mural • Middlebury College, Vermont • aerosol and acrylic • multi-floor stairwell
“Juniper Creative Arts is an educational and artistic dream team that marries engaging and hands-on learning opportunities and a family-style approach to creating a space for understanding in the areas of social justice, community, and collaborative learning. Our school now displays a world class mural on its front wall that brightly welcomes each student and community member with a powerful message of love and perseverance. Each student who worked with Juniper developed a strong sense of ownership over the shared goals of the project and left having a stake in a genuinely professionally created co-collaborative art piece.” — Natalie Guillette, Visual Arts Instructor, North Country Union High School