All Art Friday: Dunlap Paints Barns
December 03, 2010
Colorful creatures adorn barns in Maryland's farmland as part of UMD's Art Gallery project Poetic. Aesthetic.
Colorful creatures adorn barns in Maryland's farmland as part of UMD's Art Gallery project Poetic. Aesthetic.By Writing Without Paper blog
Dunlap Paints Barns
Washington, D.C.-area artist Bill Dunlap has taken to painting barns. As muralist for the "Poetic Aesthetic in Rural Maryland" project organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Dunlap is giving buildings in Maryland's vast expanse of farmland a few jolts of vivid color.
In addition to Dunlap's imaginative, playful, brightly colored creatures, the mural, completed in October, sports a poem, "Lost", by David Wagoner. Go here to see additional photos of the mural. The barn is owned by The Art of Fire, a collective of glass blowers who create everything from Christmas ornaments to perfume bottles to necklaces to stemware, vases, and bowls. In 2011, Dunlap plans to put his brush against the sides of five more barns in the Maryland countryside.
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