Jackson’s first mural design event coming in January

OUR JACKSON HOME AND CITY OF JACKSON TO HOST JACKSON’S FIRST EVER MURAL DESIGN EVENT

Jackson, Tenn (November 18, 2024): Our Jackson Home and the City of Jackson are partnering to host Jackson’s first mural design event, Design Dash on January 10-11 at theCO. The event will give West Tennessee artists an opportunity to collaborate with an artist teammate of their choice to collectively design Downtown Jackson’s newest mural.

West Tennessee-based artists are invited to participate in Design Dash at theCO on January 10 and 11, 2025. Each artist should pair up with another artist teammate and sign up to participate as a team of two by January 3. The artist teams will have no prior knowledge of the mural location or theme until they arrive at the event. Once arriving to participate in Design Dash, artist teams will receive the mural location and have two days to design the mural. The teams will receive free mentorship throughout the event from professional muralists Whitney Herrington and Kim Radford.

“The idea for Design Dash came from theCO’s event CO:hack, where team members gather for two days to solve a community need with technology. We believe hosting this event in a similar format, but with local artists designing a mural, will encourage collaboration and result in a really incredible new mural for Downtown Jackson,” Lizzie Emmons, Program Director of Our Jackson Home, said.

At the conclusion of the event, artist teams will each pitch their mural ideas to the public and a panel of judges on January 11 at 4:00 p.m. at the Design Dash Showcase event at theCO. The event is free and open to the public, and will give everyone a glimpse into the mural designing process. The winning team will receive $11,000 to install their new mural in Downtown Jackson.

All artist participants must be visual artists or graphic designers and must live in West Tennessee. There is no cost for artists to participate, and meals will be provided during the event.

A full description of Design Dash and the form to sign up to participate can be found on Our Jackson Home’s website at ourjacksonhome.com/designdash. 

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