Sacred Space

"Migrate": The Cotton Belt Mural Project is a special project funded and supported by Artica. The Cotton Belt Rail Depot building is the predominate structure residing on the Artica festival site.

 

Donations are now being accepted specifically for the funding of this project. The project is now underway but more funding is needed to complete it. Costs of this project include paying the artists, renting an aerial boom lift, paint, fuel, insurance, materials and supplies.

 

10% of your tax-deductible proceeds for this project will go to the Artica festival organization. 

 

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Sacred Space owner Nita Turnage and her husband Hap Phillips announce the creation of "Migrate": The Cotton Belt Mural Project, Phase I. The project began on September 10, 2014, with expected completion of Phase I by November 15, 2014.

 

"Migrate" is a monumental endeavor to create a massive welcome sign in dialogue with the new Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge that spans the Mississippi river on the Near North Riverside neighborhood. This exciting project is changing the face of this area.

 

The Near North Riverside neighborhood is a desolate, abused and misused area. Once a thriving industrial and commercial district, it is now a strange mix of crumbling infrastructure, homes of the homeless, a bicycle trail, an urban nature landscape and home of the Artica festival. "Migrate" will serve to enliven the environment, foster appreciation for the riverfront, create a more visitor friendly atmosphere and encourage future development of the space.

 

The mural is being painted on the historic Cotton Belt Rail Depot building located at 1400 N. First Street in St. Louis, Missouri. The building faces east toward the Mississippi river and is visible from the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. The dimensions of the mural will be approximately 750' long by 60' tall, covering the top four floors.

 

Visually, "Migrate" is incorporating a brightly colored, repetitive bird motif. The birds are arranged in such a way that the pattern, from the holistic perspective, will appear to be a landscape or flowing river stretching across the enitre building facade.

 

This project was originally conceived of by Mark Schulte (co-owner of the Cotton Belt Building) and Tommy Nagel (cityarchriver) who proposed it to Rally St. Louis. Start-up funds were generated through the non-profit organization called Rally St. Louis. Rally St. Louis "...is a crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform that generates ideas and uses funding from the region's residents and then uses those ideas to help market greater Saint Louis." Rally St. Louis requests proposals for projects then the public is asked to vote on them, and to make contributions to help see them to fruition.

 

Major contributors to this project were The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission , the The St. Louis Regional Chamber as well as anonymous individual donors.

 

Artica is a 501(c)3 organization.  All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent that the law allows.

 

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