Painting for Preservation [P4P] is a concept linking art and historic
preservation. The goal of P4P is to raise public awareness while
celebrating and documenting the aesthetic beauty and redevelopment
possibilities of distressed historic buildings and places.Painting for Preservation will paint a relocated set of barns designed by Calvert Vaux, partner of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of the National Register-list Buffalo park and parkway system, among other notable landscapes.
All are welcome to attend; all skill levels, all mediums, and spectators. The Vaux Barns are on Mill Street at the intersection of Best Street and Genesee Street near Martin Luther King Park in Buffalo, NY.
Through on-site art-making, called “Paint-Ins,” P4P mobilizes experienced and amateur artists of all-media to create at historic places. In the act of gathering together and creating art, P4P is a inclusive movement.
Painting for Preservation was started in Buffalo-Niagara. Completed work
from regional “Paint-Ins” will be on display during the National
Preservation Conference held in Buffalo, NY on October 19-22, 2011.
*For the next scheduled “Paint-In” near Buffalo-Niagara, see our website
at [www.paintingforpreservation.blogspot.com] or email Meagan Baco at
[p4partist@gmail.com]. We welcome suggestions for “Paint-In” locations
locally and will help organize “Paint-Ins” anywhere.