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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; You can always find art inside Wilkes University&#8217;s Sordoni Art Gallery, but this week, thanks to the Tape Art Crew, you&#8217;ll see a mural blossom and grow outside on the facade.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re designing it as we go,&#8221; said Leah Smith, a co-director of the Rhode Island-based team.</p><p>The basic design of the temporary mural, crafted from low-adhesive tape, is a junkyard being transformed into a garden by a group of children.</p><p>&#8220;I did petals and leaves and carrot stems,&#8221; Wilkes University student Jess Morandi, of Long Island, N.Y., said Tuesday, explaining her contribution to the project. &#8220;I love working here.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I did as far as I could reach,&#8221; said non-traditional Wilkes student Gerry DuBoice, of Kingston, pointing to an area where a life-size car and excavator had been drawn with tape.</p><p>You don&#8217;t have to be a super-confident artist to join in the project, Tape Art founder Michael Townsend said. &#8220;If you find a place you&#8217;re attracted to, where you like the subject matter, let&#8217;s get you involved.&#8221;</p><p>Whether or not you helped create the mural, Wilkes University and the Providence-rooted Tape Art Crew invite you to visit the Sordoni Gallery at 141 S. Main St. from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, during Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s monthly Third Friday Art Walk, and to take part in the &#8220;celebratory teardown&#8221; that will begin at 7:30 p.m.</p><p>Tape Art projects are intended to be temporary, and the low-adhesive tape the artists use adheres to wood, cement, brick, metal, tile and other surfaces without damaging it.</p><p>He&#8217;s not sad to see the art come down, Townsend said, explaining the teardown is part of the excitement of the project. On week-long projects, he said, &#8220;usually by Thursday, I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.&#8221;</p><p>Tuesday&#8217;s heavy rainstorms led the artists to design figures of children and lots of garden vegetation on a wall inside the Sordoni building. They would be easy to transfer outside, Townsend said.</p><p>The artists of Tape Art Crew have been called the inventors of &#8220;tape art&#8221; and have created more than 500 large murals and thousands of smaller works on walls around the globe.</p><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no history of anyone doing this before us,&#8221; said Townsend, who started the project 30 years ago.</p><p>The Luzerne Foundation and Visit Luzerne County partnered with the Sordoni Art Gallery and the Third Friday Art Block to bring the mural project to Wilkes-Barre.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Artist Michael Townsend, 47, of Providence, R.I., works on creating a mural on the facade of Wilkes University&#8217;s Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape1-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Artist Michael Townsend, 47, of Providence, R.I., works on creating a mural on the facade of Wilkes University&#8217;s Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </caption0><photoCredit0>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape3-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Sordoni Art Gallery assistant director Nikki Lewis, 24, helps apply tape to the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery with gallery attendant Jesse Elliott. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape3-1.jpg</photo1><caption1>Sordoni Art Gallery assistant director Nikki Lewis, 24, helps apply tape to the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery with gallery attendant Jesse Elliott. </caption1><photoCredit1>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape5-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Artist Leah Smith, 26, of Providence, R.I., puts tape on the wall for a display on the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape5-1.jpg</photo2><caption2>Artist Leah Smith, 26, of Providence, R.I., puts tape on the wall for a display on the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </caption2><photoCredit2>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit2></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape4-1.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Assistant Jess Morandi, 18, stands on a ladder to help apply tape to the exhibit on the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo3>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/web1_tape4-1.jpg</photo3><caption3>Assistant Jess Morandi, 18, stands on a ladder to help apply tape to the exhibit on the side of the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre. </caption3><photoCredit3>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit3></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Public invited to &#8216;celebratory teardown&#8217; on Friday</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mary Therese Biebel</p><p>mbiebel@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mary Therese Biebel at 570-991-6109 or on Twitter @BiebelMT.</p></shirttailMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><videoMeta><p><table style="border:none;width:98%;" class="mceItemTable"><tbody><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoID:</td><td id="videoid" style="width:50em;font-size:90%;"> 5gtg3EVjJbc</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoType:</td><td id="videotype" style="font-size:90%;"> YOUTUBE</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">URL:</td><td id="url" style="font-size:90%;"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gtg3EVjJbc</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Embed String:</td><td id="videoembedstring" style="font-size:90%;"> &lt;iframe width=&#8221;560&#8221; height=&#8221;315&#8221; src=&#8221;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5gtg3EVjJbc&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8221; allow=&#8221;autoplay; encrypted-media&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Caption:</td><td id="videocaption" style="font-size:90%;"> Film #6 Tape Art Crew, 10x10 Art Prize</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Credit:</td><td id="videocredit" style="font-size:90%;"> Raleigh Chadderdon</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Position:</td><td id="videoposition" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="margin-top:10px;font-size:70%;color:#555;">(use the &#8220;for files&#8230;&#8221; link above to associate attached files with this source)</p></videoMeta></div>

Temporary ‘tape art’ mural growing on Sordoni Art Gallery facade