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@ShakerOnline New Public Art Comes to Shaker Town Center MASTer MArr’S TAekwoN-do While Shaker High seniors Megan Jones and Samantha Butler have big ideas about art, the size of their canvas for Senior Project is a first; it’s a mural, painted on the rear walls of Master Marr’s Taekwon-do at 16706 Chagrin Boulevard. Other SHHS art students have created murals for Senior Project in the school’s hallways, but this will be larger and the first in a public realm. The idea for the project came from business owners Elaine Bayless and James Marr, 8 ShAKerONLINE.COM | SUMMER 2015 A small group of Shaker residents is working with the Shaker Heights Fire Department and other City staff on another public art project in Shaker Town Center. To celebrate the Centennial of the Shaker Heights Fire Department and the 10-year anniversary of the new Fire House at 17000 Chagrin Blvd., the group has prepared a Request for Proposals seeking a creative artist or team for an art education project and attractive installation (mural or sculpture) to be located at a pocket park between the Fire House and Master Marr’s studio. Production of this public artwork will engage the Shaker City Schools art teachers and students from kindergarten through fifth grade. Organizers hope that the installation will enhance the connection between the commercial district and the surrounding community and will incorporate historical elements from the past 100 years of firefighting. The group of volunteers includes Shaker artists Leslye Arian and Nancy Schwartz-Katz, and Shaker resident and director of programs for the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning (formerly Young Audiences) Mike Obertacz. To fund the project, with its estimated budget of $12,500, the group will launch a crowd-funding effort. A link to the crowd- funding site will be posted at shakeronline.com and on the City’s Facebook page, facebook.com/ShakerHeights. who asked the young women for an Asian-themed landscape. The first challenge the future Cleveland Institute of Art students faced was transferring the design to the building’s walls. Knowing they would need to create some kind of grid, they asked for counsel from the staff at Sherwin Williams, located in the same block as the martial arts school. A couple of gallons of donated paint later, and the project was underway. Group Seeks Proposals for Fire Centennial Art Location


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