Siempre Aprendiendo
Flamingo Swirl Mural
Madison Flower Flash, 2021
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Mural Rendering. Photo courtesy of the artist and Madison Public Art Project
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Join Us for this Mural Opening May 31st, 2025!
2200 Pennsylvania Ave. Madison WI 53704
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Siempre Aprendiendo translated from Spanish means “always learning.” This installation showcases how education can nourish us all. While the hummingbirds fly from flower to flower in search of nectar, the birds are fed by the knowledge found within the flowers. The artist’s figurative form, flowers, and animals are artfully presented in this beautiful and brightly layered floating mural. This expressive public art project integrates visual art, music, and nature together for a multi-sensory experience to the viewer.
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Siempre Aprendiendo means “always learning” in Spanish. While the hummingbird flies from flower to flower in search of nectar, the bird is fed by the knowledge” found in the flowers. The Madison Public Art Project commissioned Richie Morales to create this painted floating mural which includes flowers, hummingbirds, honeybees, armadillo, and figurative human head in this brightly colored and multi layered installation. The hummingbird serves as a metaphor of “self” and the flowers are the source of knowledge referencing an artistic source from which the human is nourished. This exciting project connects the visual arts, music, and nature together to offer a multi-sensory experience for the viewer in a newly planted green space garden.
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Thank you Sponsors!
This project is commissioned by the Madison Public Art Project, Inc. with major funding from Ascendium Education. Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors: American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate & Social Impact, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
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Art & Music
The artist enjoys listening to music when he is painting in his studio. Listen to the curated music playlist here that inspired the creation of this beautiful mural!
Artist studio visit, courtesy of the artist and Madison Public Art Project
Photo by Cut The Deck Creative
About the Artist @richiemoralesarte​
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This Public Art Mural features the work of a Latinx painter, Richie Morales who is living and working in Madison. Originally from Guatemala, Morales is self-taught and is always investigating the role of social justice in his work. His practice uses “legacies of personal and community resilience” and he plays with themes of memory and time.
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Richie Morales Artist Statement
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"Painting is my first language.
I am a self-taught painter that does not hesitate in his stroke, I explore the accident as a form of communion with the unknown and regularly reflect about the role of art in social justice.
Since childhood in Guatemala, I have experimented with textures and materials while working in trades of carpentry and construction work that today I integrate into my painting. My life is marked by signs of socio-economic violence as well as with legacies of personal and community resilience.
Art is for me the only space where light and darkness, the grotesque and beautiful, love and fear can integrate with each other to birth a fuller whole. And because of this, I keep painting .
In my path I had the opportunity to participate in multiple artistic collaborations across our continent of America, and I currently live in Madison, Wisconsin."
Native Planting & Gardening Workshop
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Art Volunteer Opportunities!
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Volunteer opportunities to help support this project please are at this sign up link. There will be community painting days, general support, and gardening days. No art experience is required. All supplies and materials are provided. Registration is required.
Come meet the artist and help paint and hang the backdrop for this mural installation!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0948AEAE23A6FCC70-55342798-volunteer#/
