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CPED VINYL MURAL, 2025

The vinyl mural will be a two sided visual representation of the complexity of what Minneapolis “used to be” juxtaposed by an imagined version of what Minneapolis is “going to be” in 2075 (50 years into the future).

My approach and creative inquiry has focused on the following key factors/components which include; the specific spatial considerations and the inside/out the location of the mural, and the translucent qualities of the printed vinyl murals throughout the building.

It will be installed on the third floor of the Minneapolis Public Service Building on a glass wall that separates public space and nonpublic office space. The glass wall is both a physical divide and an opportunity to be a visual bridge between a city department and the public whom the city is accountable to serving.

“Used to be/going to be” ink on vinyl, 156″ x 117″ 2025

 

 

 

Returning the River, Illuminate the Lock, 2017

Perfromance Installation, hand rendered animation projection. Van Avery, Strange, Hoyt.

 

 

Plunge. 2017

Hand rendered animation

 

Imagining Equity, Our Past

140 ft hand painted cranky about the history of the development of Minneapolis. Poetry and Narration by Diver Van Avery. 2017

 

   

 

Imagining Equity, Our Future

90 ft hand painted cranky.

Poetry and Narration by Diver Van Avery, 2017

 

Imagining Equity Summary

2016

 

 

National Museum of the Soul’s Vanities

2014

 

 

Poho Posit – Artist(s) on the Verge 3

2012

 

 

Hope Silent

2006

 

Poho Posit, a neighborhood based online platform and public installation investigating and reimagining daily posts on an online community forum. Hand rendered animations, hand rendered interactive online map of Powderhorn Park Neighborhood, topographic rendering of Powderhorn Park Neighborhood as projection map, and an interactive website archive of community dialogue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Norae Shanty was developed as part of the 2005 Art Shanty Projects as a space to explore intimate connection through song. There have been multiple iterations of the Norae Shanty including; the original on-ice installation (2005-2008), a mobile version based on Oahu and the University of Hawai’i Manoa (2008), and a semi-permenant version based in South Minneapolis (2008-2015).  

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the mobile engagement tool.

“Our Past” a 140 foot cranky that educates the public about how our city came to be, and the impacts of racially discriminatory policies throughout our cities development.

 

“Our Future” a 75 foot cranky that educates the public about present day challenges and opportunities for public policy, and how public policy recommendations can shape policy (through an equity lens) within the final 2040 comprehensive plan. 

  • Lead Artists; Diver Van Avery/Michael Hoyt
  • Fabrication: Adam Croft

Imagining Equity is a mobile engagement tool commissioned by the City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department.

 

Imagining Equity traveled to public parks, community events, and neighborhood convenings across the City of Minneapolis to invite residents to:

  • learn about the history of how Minneapolis came to be.
  • learn about how the voices, experiences, and ideas of residents can inform public policy. Create artful written and visual responses as policy recommendations.
  • learn how the Citiy’s comp planning process works.

 

One Another – a mobile portrait making platform that invited stranges into conversation and the act of seeing, looking, and drawing one another. I designed and constructed it to be a fully collapsable two-sided drawing desk built on a bicycle trailer. From 2013 to 2020 it has traveled to public parks, libraries, festivals, rural communities, and the streets and sidewalks of the Twin Cities and Philly. I have had the honor of drawing and being in conversation with over 1,200 individuals during the span of this project.