Broken Crow + Over Under mural: End of Day 4

With just a few finishing touches to go on Wednesday, the Shuga Records mural by Broken Crow and Over Under is nearly complete. See the entire process on Flickr. (Video and time-lapse to come.)

Broken Crow + Over Under mural: Day 4

After four days of work, the mural at Shuga Records in Northeast Minneapolis is just about done. Over Under's Erik Burke is back in Brooklyn, and Broken Crow's John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons are taking a day off before doing some final touch-ups. It was an amazing experience seeing this team work and watching a community coalesce around them. I'll post a full shot of the mural -- and hopefully a time-lapse of the process, plus some video -- when it's complete. But for now, here's a few shots of the team (more here).

Mike Fitzsimmons

Erik Burke

John Grider

Portrait: John Grider

What John Grider of Broken Crow wakes up to each morning. See the progress he, Mike Fitzsimmons and Erik Burke are making on the Shuga Records mural in N.E. Minneapolis (as well as Grider's "Optimist" knuckle tattoos) here.

Update: See my video on the completed mural.

Broken Crow & OverUnder to collaborate on Shuga Records mural this weekend

Detail of a Broken Crow/Overunder mural in progress in Brooklyn last week

It's official: the Minneapolis art duo Broken Crow -- John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons -- will be creating a gigantic stencil mural on the exterior of Shuga Records (formerly the Minnesota Center for Photography) in Northeast Minneapolis. While the store doesn't open 'til June 1, the pair will be transforming the massive west wall of the building during this weekend's Art-a-Whirl festival. Broken Crow's John Grider tells me that the imagery will include "porcupines, bears, houses, birds, and records, and who knows what else." Another bit of news: Broken Crow is flying in Erik Burke of Overunder to help with the piece. Here's a time-lapse of a work (featuring the aforementioned bears and porcupines) they collaborated on in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last week:



All three artists will be ducking out for a few hours to take part in another Art-a-Whirl project: The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) is hosting "Don't Sleep On It," a 24-hour art marathon in which a slew of local artists are transforming a space in the California Building over the course of a day and night. More on that tomorrow.