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The Train Show began back in October,
2003, during New Brunswick's 100 year
birthday celebration. Sam Missimer and Venezia Associates ( further
credits
and info at
http://www.veneziaassociates.com/trainstation.htm) provided
seed money to get things going and pulled together a week long birthday
bash
with music, dance, art and surprises of all kinds at high commuter time
for
a week. Artists of all kinds were invited and they came, in force, willy
nilly some times, and created in all their unique ways. This magic week
has
spilled over the sides of those seven days. Now, a year later the 64 ft long
graffiti mural created in the long hall way over the course of the week
with
artists and commuters is here at Lincoln Center's Cork Gallery. Next it
will roll on over to the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert
Wood
Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, NJ. Where next? Penn Station???
As people came through in a rush to catch their trains or get home, they
would pause and read, and write and draw and leave their mark, words
from
poems, songs and good wishes! To get things going, we wrote the words
from
John Lennon's "Imagine", Cat Steven's "Peace Train" and "Morning has
Broken".
Artists
WRAY-(wizard behind the web),
BobRakita Pages,
Paul Pugliese,
Dan Ramey,
Bob Dunham
and
others (such as a professional stilt walker, Patty Perla, (East
Brunswick ),
and a high powered secretary who loves to sew, Stephanie Andino, all
converged to make the train mural rise and move.
Inspired by the call for
train artists on the web site, a
drawing by 3 1/2 year old Jayden Milne was included and used as the
illustration for the promotion of the show.
Students have joined with a train project from the New School of
Monmouth
County ( a school whose focus is projects) ( the end wall.) This last
week
students from Paul Robeson School have created a new line of train cars
in a
rush. During the first show last October the students from Paul Robeson
School created 70 other trains which got laminated and sent home with
the
students.
A word about the Yellow Cab Guy, Bob Dunham: working long sleepy nights
as a
dispatcher at the back of the train station, where the walls of the
office
were papered with his cartoons of taxi cab life and the real world, Bob
came
through the long hall and got caught up in the rush. He began to quietly
draw and add his drawings to the mural. In the morning we would come in
to
find his additions to the mural. We created web pages for him and are
slowly
pawing through his collection and will continue to embellish his web
pages
with new work. One of New Brunswick's very special finds brought to the
surface by a week of welcoming artists of all kinds.
http://www.valweb.org/dunham/road.htm
Bob is a New Brunswick treasure of discoveries.
See the
Power Red
Train
T shirt!!!
Art
History in the making..
NOW
@ The N.B. Train station
Albus Cavus Gallery
Peter Krysko & Nicole Wines
making things happen all over New
Brunswick.