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SD artist duo makes murals by, for and with communities
More art is popping up in midwestern towns and cities in the form of murals – and one South Dakota-based artist team is involving local residents. When Vermillion-based artists Reyna Hernandez and Amber Hansen are tapped to make a project, they don’t show up with a design – or even an idea. Their new collaboration, Mural On The Wall, or "Mural O-T-W," instead asks locals to generate ideas about their communities, through storytelling, poetry and drawing. A project on Vermillion’s Main Street came to life when the high school’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance group got funding from the "It Gets Better Project," which works to empower L-G-B-T-Q youth around the world. Hernandez says the group’s ideas centered on identity.
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