INDIANAPOLIS – Jiffy Lube of Indiana recently announced that five Hoosier artists have been selected to expand the company’s “Every Part Matters” public art project in 2019. The artists were chosen from a record pool of 65 applicants to add five new murals across Indiana.
Presented in partnership with the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indianapolis’ local arts agency, “Every Part Matters” was created in 2015 with a goal of embracing the arts and giving back to the community. The project has already transformed the exterior walls at nine statewide Jiffy Lube buildings into beautiful, colorful displays.
The 2019 “Every Part Matters” mural artists and locations are:
• Pamela Bliss is an Indianapolis-based muralist with an expertise in portraiture and is known for creating the iconic “My Affair with Kurt Vonnegut” mural on Massachusetts Avenue, the four-story-high portrait of Reggie Miller on Delaware Street, and the “Jazz Masters of Indiana Avenue” mural on Capitol Street, among others. Pamela will create a mural for the Southside Jiffy Lube store at 7965 US 31 South (at Stop 11 Road), which is currently under construction.
• Christina Hollering is passionate about issues related to environmental awareness and conservation. She recently translated her practice of cut paper and printmaking into painted images and larger-scale work. Christina will be working at the Jiffy Lube store in Lawrence Township at 9825 Fall Creek Rd. (at 79th St).
• Megan Jefferson is an Indianapolis-based abstract and landscape painter who has previously created murals for Jiffy Lube as part of the artist collective Department of Public Words. She enjoys incorporating community engagement into her mural work. Megan will be working in Avon at the Jiffy Lube store located at 7825 E. US 36 (Rockville Road, near Dan Jones Road).
• ISH (Ismael Muhammad Nieves) has been an active muralist and graffiti writer in Hammond for over 30 years. ISH will be creating a mural at the Jiffy Lube store located at 8580 N. Michigan Road (at 86th St.).
• Kyle Ragsdale’s distinctive painting style incorporating people enjoying life together is instantly recognizable from his mural “Hoosier Hospitality on the Boatload of Knowledge” on the canal in downtown Indianapolis as well as his theatrical sets and from billboards produced by The Harrison Center, where he is the gallery curator. Kyle will be working at the Jiffy Lube store located at 10520 E. Washington St. (between Mitthoeffer Road and German Church Road).
All murals are expected to be completed by the end of October 2019.
