{"id":8941,"date":"2015-08-13T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2015-07-30T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:36:15","slug":"color-a-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/08\/color-a-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Color a Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What a remarkable image! Artists color a village in Mexico to bring beauty and benefit to the small town of Pachuca. <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/464860\/photos-10-artists-blanketed-in-an-entire-mexican-neighborhood-in-colorful-murals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a> appropriately describes it as &#8220;color therapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8942\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8942 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz.jpg\" alt=\"Pachuca village_via  Quartz on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pachuca village_via Quartz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oddly named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/muralismogermen?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">German Crew<\/a> group is responsible for this urban renewal project with its youth graffiti artists who transformed 209 residents&#8217; homes with swaths of broad strokes of color.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The village is located in the most impoverished area of the Palmitas about 100 miles outside of Mexico City. The project hopes to bring cultural awareness and tourism to help fend off crime while engaging the community to take back their town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This part of the project has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/palmitas-mexican-neighborhood-becomes-germen-crew-mural-319947\" target=\"_blank\">taken six months<\/a>, from the design by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mibe.monumental\" target=\"_blank\">Mibe<\/a>, a street artist from Mexico City, to the whitewashed basepaint before to the bright colorization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8943\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/before.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8943 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/before.jpg\" alt=\"Pachura before via ArtNet \/ German Crew on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/before.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/before-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">before via ArtNet \/ German Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8944\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8944 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-4.jpg\" alt=\"Pachura colored via ArtNet \/ German Crew on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-4-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pachura colored via ArtNet \/ German Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The second phase will add figurative murals to the streets scape. It&#8217;s a beautiful work in progress &#8212; putting artists to work and adding a beneficial facial &#8220;uplift&#8221; to the town &#8212; in more ways than just cosmetic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8945\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pachura_-via-German-Crew.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8945 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pachura_-via-German-Crew.jpg\" alt=\"Just look how this Pachura town stands out now. Photo via German Crew on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"480\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pachura_-via-German-Crew.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pachura_-via-German-Crew-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just look how this town stands out now! Photo via German Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?s=village+murals&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">previous posts<\/a>, you can read about how a similar town of Favela was transformed with murals and color.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists color a village in Mexico to bring beauty and benefit to the small town of Pachuca, as featured on Art Is Everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,92,72,69,585,6,31,41],"tags":[2649,2647,2645,2648,2646],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-culture","category-design","category-functional-art","category-inspiration","category-murals","category-philosophy","tag-artnet-news","tag-mibe","tag-pachuca","tag-quartz","tag-village-color-mural"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Color a Village<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Artists color a village in Mexico to bring beauty and benefit to the small town of Pachuca, as featured on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/08\/color-a-village\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Color a Village\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artists color a village in Mexico to bring beauty and benefit to the small town of Pachuca, as featured on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/08\/color-a-village\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-13T11:33:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"490\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"276\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/color-a-village\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/color-a-village\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Color a Village\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-13T11:33:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/color-a-village\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/color-a-village\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/Panchuca-village_via-Quartz.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ArtNet news\",\"Mibe\",\"Pachuca\",\"Quartz\",\"village color mural\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Artists\",\"Celebrations &amp; 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