{"id":15349,"date":"2017-08-29T21:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/29\/alex-hayes-16-helps-give-pow-wow-worcester-its-punch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:43:31","slug":"alex-hayes-16-helps-give-pow-wow-worcester-its-punch","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/29\/alex-hayes-16-helps-give-pow-wow-worcester-its-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Hayes ’16 helps give POW! WOW! Worcester its punch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Hayes ’16 helps artist Kristin Farr paint a mural at Elm Park Community School in Worcester.\r\n\r\nFor the next week or so, you’ll find Alex Hayes ’16 surrounded by that which he loves – art and the Worcester community.\r\n\r\n“Art is a part of my life,” he says, peering up at a three-story brick wall at Elm Park Community School that artist Kristin Farr<\/a> is transforming for POW! WOW! Worcester<\/a>. The mural festival, in its second year in the city, attracts artists from across the globe who turn dozens of ordinary walls into extraordinary art with a spray-paint can or swipes of a brush.\r\n\r\n

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Artist Kristin Farr is creating a mural inspired by Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs for POW! WOW! Worcester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nHayes, who volunteered at last year’s event, is now working in artist management. Besides helping with organization, he’s assisting Farr with painting a design inspired by Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs. Hayes believes this year’s focus on school walls – 11 artists are working at the Elm Park building alone – will further connect the community he chose to stay in after graduation.\r\n\r\n“I wanted to be in a city that was changing, and I wanted to be a part of the change,” he says.\r\n\r\nWhile a student, Hayes majored in theater arts<\/a> and geography<\/a>, studying urban geography and, through geographic information system (GIS) mapping, researching graffiti’s impact on communities and policies. He earned a Peter J. Condakes Summer Research Fellowship Award<\/a> from the Geography Department<\/a> his sophomore year, spent a lot of time seeking street art in hidden places, and presented his research, “Painted Walls as Policy,” at the Association of American Geographers<\/a> Annual Meeting in Chicago in 2015 and San Francisco in 2016, as well as during Academic Spree Day also in 2016.\r\n\r\nMentioning a boy who has visited the Elm Park school several times to check the progress, Hayes sees the POW! WOW! murals as a way to inspire those who wouldn’t normally seek out artwork.\r\n\r\n“It’s a way to connect, to bring art out of the gallery,” he says.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the next week or so, you’ll find Alex Hayes ’16 surrounded by that which he loves – art and the Worcester community. “Art is a part of my life,” he says, peering up at a three-story brick wall at Elm Park Community School that artist Kristin Farr is transforming for POW! WOW! Worcester. 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