We The People Mural 2013

Visit the mural at 111 East Lafayette on the corner of St. Paul.

Read about the Official opening party held for the "We The People" Mural

The "We The People" Mural is both a refurbishment and a redesigned extension of a 1974 Bob Hieronimus mural called "The Bicentennial Mural" - one of 10 contest winners for the City's Bicentennial art program that year. With funding from Zohara Meyerhoff Hieronimus he selected a crew of dedicated art students and professionals from UMBC, MICA and Johns Hopkins University to help him execute his new design, which this time encompassed the entire wall, nearly doubling the size of the original. The Midtown Fall town hall meeting on Wed. Oct. 30th, 2013 will include an award for outstanding projects in Midtown, and the Historic St. Paul Street park will receive one of these awards.

Photo: Stuart Zolotorow

The former America's Bicentennial Mural

The mural is located at 111 E. Lafayette Street at St. Paul Street.

Dr. Robert Hieronimus on the scaffolding during the painting of America's Bicentennial Mural commissioned by the City of Baltimore and completed May, 1974.

21st Century Radio Liked · July 8 A segment of America's Bicentennial Mural commissioned by the City of Baltimore and completed May 1974 by Bob Hieronimus. From the Waters of Aquarius emerges a UFO, above which a comet heralds the emergence of this "visiting" life form.

We The People Mural - Set Up The Scaffolding

The five-story scaffolding soars and the painting is about to begin...

We are Painting!

June 15th 2013 the painting began...


Mural design laid out under a grid for accurate reproduction on a larger scale.	Mural artists Lauren DeMarsh and Mai Huong Huynh-Teage sketch on the primed wall.

Artist Greg Gannon and Justin Williams color-matching to the design by Dr. Bob.	Greg Gannon is five stories up working on the "We The People" lettering at the very top of the mural.

Progress update...


Mural artists Mai Mai Huong Huynh-Teage, Megan Jang, Lauren DeMarsh and Valerie Chavez.	Animal forms and Iroquois, also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", patterns at the base of the mural. The Iroquois Tree of Peace is the symbolic rendering of this indigenous nation’s “constitution”, and how they transmitted the ideas of unity and peace without a written language.

The Iroquois Clan Symbols, Flag, Corn and Wampum Belts decorate the base of this mural to emphasize that America’s roots lie firmly in Native American traditions.
A dizzying view.	Painting Supplies for the mural.
Mai Huong Huynh-Teage working high up on the scaffolding.	Megan Jang works on the ears of corn.
Project Co-Coordinator Justin Williams and Dr. Bob take a working lunch, going over color chips for the mural paints.

The figure of Aquarius emerges in the mural. The water bearer symbolizes synthesis as opposed to selfishness, diversity and analysis.	Zoe Daniel painting the Washington Covenant Wampum Belt. It was presented to the former colonies from the sachems of the Iroquois Confederacy at the end of the Revolution to signify their peace treaty. The 13 figures on the belt represent the 13 new states, and it’s ironically named for George Washington who, in 1779, had ordered the destruction of Iroquois homelands in New York.
Lauren DeMarsh works on the Statue of Liberty figure. Lady Liberty is the best-known American goddess, but only because she is 151 feet tall and perfectly situated to be seen. In reality, she is one of hundreds of depictions of the goddess throughout American historical art and official symbols.
Billy Mitchell applies the first strokes to the Liberty Bell.

It's good to have a laugh when you are working this hard in the July 2013 heat! Dr. Bob and Director of Artistic Operations Justin Williams.	Mural artist Loraine Imwold is working way up high, just under the "We The People" calligraphy which is the very top of the mural.
Progress of the "We The People" mural as of early July 2013.
July 5, 2013 Mural Work Continues...

Director of Artistic Operations Justin Williams paints the Iroquois Clan symbols.


Lauren DeMarsh works on the vibrations of peace emanating from the Tree of Peace.	OneShot Paints - wow that silver looks awesome!

"Flames" from the comet in the mural taking shape.	Flames behind the figure of Aquarius being painted in.

Mural artist Zoe Daniel is working two stories up on the "We The People" Mural.	Kasey Jones, Project Co-Coordinator and MFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art, working on flames and vibrations just behind the figure of Aquarius.

Aquarius and the urn are pouring forth the energies of unity that will reign in the Aquarian Age. The basic philosophy of Aquarius is the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God. The water bearer symbolizes synthesis as opposed to selfishness, diversity and analysis.	Mural artist Colleen O’Connor Collins is a student at MICA.

Lorraine Imwold is a professional artist who was also responsible for much of the work on the dizzying highest levels.	Zoe Daniel is a UMBC student majoring in Print Media with a minor in Biology. Here she paints in "Ex Pluribus Unum" meaning 'from one come many'.

Director of Artistic Operations Justin Williams confers with Mai Huong Huynh-Teage, a visual art student at UMBC who is studying graphic design with an emphasis on animation and studio lighting, is painting the Baltimore Battle Monument area of the mural.	Mural artists Megan Jang, a Writing Seminar graduate from Hopkins and Billy Mitchell, a Fine Arts major at UMBC in Inter-Media Visual Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design hard at work.
	Billy Mitchell lettering the Liberty Bell.