Rural Art of these four barn murals is part of the Dairyland Graphics
program sponsored by the Wisconsin Arts Board. Youth groups in six
Wisconsin communities, who worked with local artists to design the
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WISCONSIN - If a friend
tells you fie has seen pain
tings as big as barns in
Wisconsin, don’t assume he’s
exaggerating. In fact, the
paintings are on bams.
In a unique project
designed to help persons in
rural Wisconsin express
their artistic feelings, the
Wisconsin Arts Board last
year initiated a mural
painting program that
surfaced on six bams in as
many communities. The
program, called Dairyland
Graphics, will be repeated
'his year as six additional
bam sides are slated to be
painted.
Initial funding for a
program coordinator and
local professional artists
came from the National
Endowment for the Arts,
according to Jerrold B.
Rouby, executive director of
the Wisconsin Arts Board.
“We consider the first
year program a tremendous
success,” Rouby said. “We
have have had calls from
persons in communities
across the state asking that
murals be painted on bams
in their areas this year.”
barns into works of art
Dairyland Graphics,
according to Rouby, was the
first statewide mural
program offered to rural
areas in any state.
“It gave local citizens an
opportunity to express
themselves artistically in a
form easily seen by
passersby,” he said. “In
each of the six communities,
a sense of civic pride in the
painted barn developed
among the residents.”
Once the board selected
the six communities, the
program coordinator sought
local help to find suitable
murals, applied more than 100 gallons of paints by PPG Industries to
complete the barn-size artworks.
bam walls, gain permission
from bam owners, find local
artists and student volun
teers to design and paint the
murals, and arrange for
local publicity and
dedication ceremonies.
Youth organizations such
as the Girl Scouts and 4-K
groups provided many en
thusiastic volunteers. After
working with artists to
design each mural on paper,
volunteers aided in reducing
murals to scale on charts.
Each chart was cut into
sections and each numbered
section was stapled to a
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corresponding section of a
bam, where young painters
could study it and transfer it
to bam wood with crayon.
Volunteers then filled in the
colors with Pittsburgh
Paints.
Each bam was dedicated
in community ceremonies,
and the program’s results
have pleased residents and
tourists alike.
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