Color with community.
project, which are podcast recordings that tell the stories of longtime Montbello residents.
Puskar was notified of his acceptance in December, and painted the mural in June over the course of about a week."[The mural] presents an opportunity for people to meet one another," Puskar says."There’s a task at hand that they have to do, so people are focused on something which opens them to socialize more outside of that."
If community members are gathered around a shared activity, they are more likely to talk, meet their neighbors and be social, suggests Puskar, who says he likes the idea of people being able to come and color casually without the pressure of creating the designs or drawings themselves."It’s really low-stakes. It's just chalk, so when the chalk gets washed off, it’s totally renewable," Puskar says."It’s not as if they’re putting a permanent paint stroke on it.
As a social worker, Puskar says that building community is"literally part of my job description," so he's pushing"projects that help people get a sense of what their communities look like, and to interact with people they wouldn’t normally interact with."Otherwise, the event is open from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, August 4., it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way.
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