{"id":343589,"date":"2026-07-17T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:31:10","slug":"four-artists-will-turn-big-arts-dunham-family-gallery-into-a-giant-mural-over-six-week-span-beginning-in-august-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343589\/","title":{"rendered":"Four artists will turn BIG ARTS’ Dunham Family Gallery into a giant mural over six-week span beginning in August | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, four local artists created a mammoth mural that encompassed the entire Dunham Family Gallery at BIG ARTS. \u201cBirds, No Words\u201d<\/a> was as tall as a person and as long as a football field. It was such a huge success that BIG ARTS is doing it again, says Marketing Director Meghan Govoni.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn August, we’re going to have four different artists in the Dunham Family Gallery collaborating over the course of six weeks painting and drawing all the walls, and the fun part about this is people can stop in and see the artists work sporadically and watch the exhibit come together,\u201d said Govoni.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Mariapia Malerba<\/p>\n

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Mariapia Malerba <\/p>\n

Cape Coral artist Mariapia Malerba is one of four artists participating in BIG ARTS’ ‘Currents’ mural project. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s project is called \u201cCurrents,\u201d and the muralists will be BIG ARTS Gallery Director Wilson McCray, Mariapia Malerba, Shah Hadjebi and Macy Noll.<\/p>\n

Florida SouthWestern State College Digital Arts Professor Dahye Kim will add digital projections to the final product.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they’re not here every day all day long,\u201d Govoni noted. \u201cSometimes you can walk in and there’s two of them here. Sometimes there’s one of them, sometimes all four of them are here. They do give updates when all four of them are going to be working together and we do post that on our social media pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching the mural take shape over time is enthralling and viewing the completed artwork is magical.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a closing reception, so after the artwork is completed and the gallery is done, everyone comes in to see the final product and it’s really fun,\u201d Govoni added.<\/p>\n

The closing reception will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

Follow BIG ARTS on Facebook and Instagram for updates.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Florida Gulf Coast University<\/p>\n

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Florida Gulf Coast University <\/p>\n

Artist Macy Noll is one of four artists taking part in BIG ARTS’ ‘Currents’ mural project. <\/p>\n

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Last year\u2019s mural project, \u201cBirds No Words,\u201d<\/a> was very popular, said Govoni.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople loved coming back week after week to see the progress,\u201d Govoni observed. \u201cIt was well received. We had a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on artist Mariapia Malerba, read\/hear:<\/p>\n

For more on Macy Noll, read\/hear, “Fifth-year FGCU student Macy Noll installing ‘Knowledge in Motion’ mural in campus library.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Support for WGCU\u2019s arts & culture reporting comes from the Estate of Myra Janco Daniels, the Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation, and Naomi Bloom in loving memory of her husband, Ron Wallace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, four local artists created a mammoth mural that encompassed the entire Dunham Family Gallery at BIG…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-343589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}