NEW MURAL TO BRIGHTEN A GROWING AND VIBRANT DOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

NEW MURAL TO BRIGHTEN A GROWING AND VIBRANT DOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

Human Sized Interactive Angel Wings mural to grace the wall at 425 Main Street

 EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, June 5, 2020] — Internationally recognized mural artist Colette Miller will be bringing her Global Angel Wings Project to Evansville this month.  She will be in town from June 16-18 to paint a custom-designed pair of angel wings on the side of the building located at 425 Main Street in downtown Evansville.  Colette created the Global Angel Wings Project in 2012, in the streets of Los Angeles, to remind humanity that we are the angels of this earth.  

The first pair of wings painted in the arts district of downtown Los Angeles was spontaneous street art, but the response was natural, immediate, and enormous – from people of all sorts and backgrounds.  In the years since, Colette has painted wings in major U.S. cities and airports such as LAX, Chicago O’Hare and Newark Liberty International, and globally in places like Kenya, Australia, England, Japan, France, Cuba, China, and even on the glass of the observatory atop the world’s tallest building in Dubai.  The angel wings allow individuals to become part of the artwork by photographing themselves wearing the wings and then sharing the pictures of themselves on social media.  Her wings are one of, if not the most, recognizable images on social media.

The movement to bring the Global Angel Wings Project to Evansville was started over a year ago by local intellectual property attorney Rick Martin, who became familiar with the project through his sister Anne and her husband Gregory Clewlow who own/operate Sugar Press Art in Los Angeles, CA.  Sugar Press Art (sugarpressart.com) is the exclusive distributor of prints of a number of Colette’s pieces, including several different angel wings.  Rick Martin’s law firm, Martin IP Law Group, located in downtown Evansville, has worked with Colette to register and protect copyrights on her angel wing works.  

When public funding was determined to be unavailable for the project, with the assistance of the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, Martin turned to local patrons to raise the funds to make the project a reality.  “We quite literally turned to “angel investors” in the local community to make this happen,” Martin said.  “Raising the money was really not too difficult.  When I told people what we were trying to do, and showed them examples of Colette’s work, they were more than happy to open their wallets and help out.  The beauty and quality of her work and the story behind it made it easy.”

The mural will be painted over the course of three days – June 16, 17, and 18.  Members of the public are invited to come by and watch as this great addition to downtown Evansville takes shape.  And after it is complete, people will be able to become part of the artwork for years to come.

 If you would like more information about this topic, please call Rick Martin at (812) 449-3274 or email rick@ipsolutionslaw.com.

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