Wake Up

The Spoken Word project uses spoken words as a site for identity-making through storytelling that explores moments, events, or people of inspiration. The project is designed to use collective literacy practices to build reading, writing, sharing, and reflecting skills.

Wake Up incorporates and synthesizes ideas, words and images created by the Mural Corps students involved in this project. Students used spoken word and writing to create symbols and imagery. The artist collected and composed this imagery to describe what and how the students felt about inspiration.

The mural depicts three students wrapped in the paper on which their words are written. Behind the figures are a series of Adinkra symbols. On the horizon, there is a collection of words and symbols the students used to identify their own thoughts and feelings around the idea of inspiration and how they can use these thoughts and feelings and to give this inspiration back to the community.

Location Note: This mural was on view at the site of the former Murphy Family Auto Repair. It is no longer on view at this location.