Note: the mural was not formally named at the time of its dedication -- this title is "after the fact."

Artists: John Acosta, Richard Schletty, Armando Gutierrez

Year Completed: 1985

Dimensions: Approx. 60 ft. wide x 12' high

Location: South wall of Captain Ken's Firehouse Beans building, at 344 So. Robert St. (2 blocks N of Concord), on St. Paul's "West Side".

Medium/Materials: Acrylic-latex house paints -- used only primer colors dark brown and white. Original intention was to do the underpainting in grayscale and lay transparent washes of color over that (Bistre method). The grayscale painting by itself ended up having a remarkable strength without the addition of color...so we left it that way. That is in contrast to other West Side murals which are typically brightly colored.

Funding: COMPAS, Northern States Power, First National Bank.

Commissioned by: Emergency Fund Service (aka St. Paul Food Bank)...now known as Second Harvest.

Grant written by Anne Maertz.

Purpose of mural: Promote food shelf at Neighborhood House. Raise people's awareness of the issue of hunger. Pictured are people from different nationalities working to eliminate hunger.

Miscellaneous: Commercial offset lithographic prints were made of mural. One is hanging in Neighborhood House.

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