{"id":1404,"date":"2018-11-27T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2023-04-09T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:50:39","slug":"chris-silva-helping-communities-thrive-through-artistic-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/chris-silva-helping-communities-thrive-through-artistic-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Silva: Helping Communities Thrive Through Artistic Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Back Back To The Future Primitive mural by Chris Silva, as seen in Chicago on Wescover<\/p>\n

Chris Silva is an incredibly articulate and well-spoken individual. When we hear\u00a0his reflections on his emotional and physical artistic process, we can\u2019t help but feel motivated to create something of our own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chris does a lot of collaborative outreach work with urban youth communities. Our favorite is the Triple Heart Bypass<\/a> mural created by 15 youth interns in Chicago\u2019s neighborhood of Little Village during the summer of 2015. The crisp triangular lines, vibrant gradients, and eclectic patterns capture the livelihood and energy of Chicago\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“My frequent practice of collaboration seeks to pursue a less self-centric approach to art making \u2013 one which embraces the challenge of sacrificing individual control, or credit, for the greater good of the projects, and in the service of a larger community.” \u2014\u00a0Says Chris on his <\/span>Mission page<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
These are the artists our landscape needs.<\/div>\n
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His piece above, titled \u201cBack To The Future Primitive,<\/a>\u201d was a collaborative mural by Chris Silva & Dan Ezra Lang commissioned by Chicago\u2019s 1871 incubator space ar Merchandise Mart. You can see more images and inquire about his work on his Wescover map!<\/div>\n
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See More of Chris Silva’s work ><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back To The Future Primitive mural by Chris Silva, as seen in Chicago on Wescover Chris Silva is an incredibly articulate and well-spoken individual. When we hear\u00a0his reflections on his emotional and physical artistic process, we can\u2019t help but feel motivated to create something of our own. Chris does a lot of collaborative outreach work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1375,1372,1373],"tags":[635,325,636,637,638,639,191,640,641],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-categories","category-all-community","category-community","category-creators-sellers","tag-back-to-the-future-primitive","tag-chicago","tag-chris-silva","tag-collaborative-work","tag-dan-ezra-lang","tag-merchandise-mart","tag-mural","tag-mural-art","tag-triple-heart-bypass"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}