Photo above: Kapok Tree Mural with Flying Seeds, 2024. Mural created to honor and celebrate the life and work of Dr. Paul Farmer.
Project design and facilitation by Laurel True. Mural creation by Laurel True with production assistance by Yvette Kayitaramirwa, Lissa Kaneza, Consolee Mutimukeye, Nelson Niyishoborabyose, John Diouf Nkurikiyimana, Moise Nshimiyimana, Pauline Turizihiwe, Claudine Uwamahoro, Jeanne Uwineza, and Marie Louise Usabiyimbabazi, with special guests Claire Barnett and Julia Whelan.
Replay of Rwanda Mosaic Project Presentation:
Recap of Kapok Tree Mural Project to honor Dr. Paul Farmer
Original Air Date: February 29, 2024
I recently hosted a free, virtual presentation with lots of stories and photos, including an introduction to Rwanda and the wonderful, local, young people whom I trained in mosaic mural making, as they helped with my latest project.
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I'm so excited for you to watch the replay and hear the stories and see images from the Kapok Tree Mural Project at the Butaro Teaching Hospital in Rwanda, in partnership with Partners In Health. My friends and colleagues, Claire Barnett and Julia Whelan, who came to Rwanda to participate in the project were also in attendance.
I talk about the pre-planning, organization, creation, installation, and teamwork + legacy around this project, which was created to honor the late Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health. In addition to the project recap there is also an audience Q & A.
“With rare exception, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others -- or, in a word, partnership.”
- Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder, Partners In Health
All the details...
This recording of my live interview-style talk is approximately an hour.
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Original Event Date:
February 29, 2024
About Laurel True
Laurel True is an artist, teacher and advocate of creative expression. Through her studio, True Mosaics Studio, she has specialized in creative placemaking, public art and architectural mosaics for the past 30 years. She has created architectural installations, mosaic murals and sculptural forms for parks, transit systems, streetscapes, hospitals, social and education centers, and commercial and residential spaces across the US and in Haiti, Europe, Mexico, South and Central America and Africa.
She has an active studio practice through which she explores concepts of beauty, identity and perception using juxtapositions of materials and iterative processes.
True co-founded the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, California and has fostered education in the mosaic arts through teaching and speaking around the world. She is Founding Director of Global Mosaic Project, which provides art education and entrepreneurial training to underserved communities in urban and developing areas through socially engaged art. True has trained thousands of students, volunteers, artists, teachers and community members in the creation of over 200 projects globally that contribute to environmental beautification, economic and community development, well-being and social justice.
True apprenticed with artist Isaiah Zagar after receiving a degree in African Studies from University of Wisconsin. She has studied at Studio Arte del Mosaico in Ravenna, Italy; Universite Chiek Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal; Parsons School of Design in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. She participated in/partnered with TEDWomen, International Urban Mosaic Intervention in Chile, International Community Mural Arts Program in Turkey through the US State Department, Partners In Health, UNOPS, Jacmel Mozaik Haiti and recently published her first book.
Photo: Mosaic mural team in Rwanda, with Laurel.
