Professor Frank Hyder and Moore Students Create Murals in Venezuela

Frank Hyder, Professor, Fine Arts and Basics, Moore College of Art & Design, lead an intensive two-week mural painting course in Merida, Venezuela, May 21 - June 4. The course was conducted in collaboration with Moore College of Art students, Philadelphia's renowned Mural Arts program and students from the University of the Andes, in Merida.

The goal of the program was teaching the techniques of mural painting as it is practiced in Philadelphia-a city with one of the country's most expansive and successful urban mural programs-to the Venezuelan students and to introduce the concept of the power of mural art to transform an urban setting.

In two weeks, the students and Professor Hyder executed two ambitious public murals. Return to Nature now adorns a 150' x 15'-high city building. A second mural, Magic of Genetics, was created by the students using a painting technique that makes use of unwoven textile as a support, a method widely used in Philadelphia, but little known outside the U.S. This mural was attached inside the entrance of the University School of Science, Merida. The projects proved popular with the public and resulted in interviews on local TV and in newspapers.

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