Press release:

This summer, muralist Augustina Droze will be creating a large mural on the wall on 4th Avenue SW at 151st, across from the Burien Library/City Hall on the building housing the Dollar Tree.

Burien Artists are invited to create “patterns of identity” to be possible incorporated into the final artwork. Open to all ages…just need to be a Burien resident.

Augustina has created murals across the country and internationally, including Palm Beach, Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Buffalo.

She recently worked with underprivileged artists in Nagpur, India to create the largest mural in the city.

Augustina states “I am a two dimensional artist who focuses primarily on mural painting. I find that the scale of a mural allows for increased expression and evokes a transitory response in viewers. Murals have the ability to relocate an onlooker and change one's perspective. I also feel that the accessibility of mural arts creates a large and robust viewing population which is often more diverse than that which frequents museums or galleries.

“Viewers are forced to face the art, make personal aesthetic and emotional judgments and move on.” Augustina is influences by the passionate murals of the Mexican mural movement (most notably Diego Riviera) and the realistic narrative murals of contemporary muralists including Jeff Zimmerman and John Pugh. These artists have helped to shape Augustina's style and scale.”

Her work can be seen at www.admuralstudio.com

Theme -- Identity:
• The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known: "If the broadcast group is the financial guts of the company, the news division is its public identity" (Bill Powell).
• The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.
• The quality or condition of being the same as something else.
• The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.



Please use a separate piece of paper to do the drawing. The drawing should not contain any logos or words. Please either e-mail a PDF version of the drawing to ginak@burienwa.gov or drop off drawings at the Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Ave SW, Mon-Thurs. 8:30 am-8pm, Friday 8:30am-5pm. Deadline is May 25th.