Kelsey Scult ’14

Summer 2013

Public Art in Indonesia

Kelsey Scult ’14 is a double major in Studio Art and African American Studies. Since coming to Oberlin Kelsey has immersed herself in studying public art; she painted three murals with another student in the Dascomb dorm, is currently working on another one that will be installed next to the Cat and the Cream concert hall, and worked with the Lorain Arts Council Mural Artists in reviving the city through a series of murals along the buildings of Main Street. She recently spent two weeks in South Korea with painting professor Sarah Schuster where she worked as the exhibition assistant for the Ecorea International Painting Biennale. Kelsey believes murals are the ultimate form of story telling in the way they articulate a voice for a space by asserting identity on the physical markers of an environment. In pursuit of this understanding, Kelsey will spend Summer 2013 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia researching one of the most vibrant mural scenes in the world. She hopes to research the intersection of public art with the political, social, economic, and historical factors of the Yogya community. She will volunteer with a local gallery, collaborate with artists in the area and conduct several interviews to later create a documentary on the growing street art scene there.