The One Spark festival is in full force as people get the opportunity to see each of the creator’s projects.
The festival headlines music, science and technology projects created by people from all over the country.
Another, main creative output displayed at One Spark is art projects.
Cris Dam, an artist from Brooklyn, New York, came to Jacksonville to paint a mural on one of the Laura Street Trio Buildings.
He and a local school teacher have collaborated to get kids from Jacksonville to contribute to the mural.
Dam said, “Basically I wanted to do a project to brighten up the city and to also involve the community and have the kids have something they are proud of.”
Each student, ranging between the ages of 10 and 16, will get to paint in a prescribed area of the mural.
“They’re all interested in the arts, so I thought it would be a good thing for them to start and to be proud of and have a space in the city that belongs to them,” says Dam.
For the past four years Dam has been creating murals in numerous other cities from Brooklyn to Berlin.