BIM Art Installations Details

Description: Street / Wall Murals: Murals on the streets themselves or those on the walls of buildings are an opportunity for a community to come together and put a message on the streets, something that lasts for years to come.

Why to choose this type of event: 

• If you don’t have a large, active grassroots community but want to bring a handful of people together to have a bigger, lasting impact with a Basic Income mural.
• If you have an active art community and want to help bring to life a display of Basic Income art. If you have lots of artists who want to help, you may want to have multiple mural events happening on Sept 19th across your community, to engage the full community.

Size of event: This depends on what kind of art mural one is going for: Is it a single artist’s undertaking (with possible art assistants?) or is it a collaborative contribution from a community that’s temporary like sidewalk chalk?

But I don’t do art or am not creative? If you aren’t fluent in artistic skills, but want to make an impact on your community, first reach out to artists in your community to see if there is interest and support for this type of event. You can help organize and support the event even if you aren’t creative yourself!

Logistics / What you need:

• Permission from city or owner of building. Google “(your city, state) art exhibition / street murals public permits” is a good first step. Many cities will allow people to paint murals on streets with simple permits (here’s an example in Portland, OR). Or, if you have the permission of the building owner, a permit might not be necessary.
• Find an artist in your area that can help create the vision and execution of the art project.
• Paint supplies - research if you have mural organizations or street art collectives and reach out to them about best practices. Try to find ways to keep costs low by limiting the number of colors, or other factors.
• Template for the mural
• Clear roles and responsibilities for participants day-of. 

Promotions: If you are planning other actions as well as the mural, you can gather at the sight of one of your art installations. If you have many planned, you could provide a map view so your parade or community could do a tour of them.

If you are planning on doing an Art Installation please keep Income Movement informed - we would like to highlight and promote your achievements and try find ways to support at least some of the costs.