The mural’s not new but it was new to me when I happened upon it last week at the corner of Church and Shuter Streets. Talk about waking up the neighbours! A United Church of Canada project, the first Paint Your Faith mural — a second was unveiled in Vancouver last month — is designed “to encourage people from all walks of life to express their faith through art,” according to a UCC press release.
Completed in September 2009, the Toronto mural adorns the side of a 104-year old building on the property of the Metropolitan United Church. Four grafitti artists — two from Toronto (Elicser and Mediah) and two from San Francisco (Chor Boogie and Siloette) — were commissioned to collaborate on the piece, which measures 60′ x 30′ and took two weeks to complete. “The mural is part of the United Church’s ongoing effort to take its message of faith and spirituality back to the street,” says project executive producer Alan Serpa. The piece will be up for about a year, until construction of a new condo begins on the lot sometime in 2011.
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Fantastic and innovative. Shows the church as being part of the community and not just something set to the side on a Sunday morning.