Thank you all for being so PRESENT with us on this special day!
Over 100 people, including 4 school groups, stopped by throughout the day to make this happen.
The project’s goal is simple: To bring people together in the art of creating something beautiful.
In Missoula, MT the project is our way of celebrating Dia de Lost Muertos (Day of the Dead) and being PRESENT with those we’ve lost.
Check out coverage of the event on KECI TV!
Around this time of year we get slammed with work and school. Busy field season, mid-terms….why spend so much energy and time to make a piece of art that you’re going to rake up anyway???? And you let random people participate????
It’s because of YOU– lovely, amazing Missoula community– and all the love and positive feedback you give us to bring this project back for a 3rd year. We have been so inspired by your support and generosity! The Mandala is really a space that we make together: It is what we all bring to it!!!
And the Mandala is a place for us to be present in the memory of those we have lost. Let’s celebrate their lives with color, community and creativity!
That said, sawdust dyeing has begun: THANK YOU dear friends who showed up Sunday: Bri and Rob, Hanna, Mary, Jeremy and Emily, Martin, Caleb and Nanda! You all ROCK!!!!
And to our major sponsors for their in-kind and financial contributions:
and the Clark Fork River Market for providing the space for us to raise the funds we need! Thank you Franco!
Thank you also to the individuals and businesses that donated to our raffle:
THE AMAZÔNIA EXHIBIT
CALEB VAN GELDER- DRUM LESSONS
NATURALLY CLEANING SERVICE
SOPHIE’S FARM AND ORCHARD
Artists: MARYANN BONJORNI and BETH LO
The Missoula Mandala Project has one simple objective: To bring the Missoula community together to collectively create a large public piece of art. We create, celebrate and then recycle this piece within 24 hours at Caras Park, coinciding with one of Missoula’s most unique and popular events, the Day of the Dead parade, November 2nd.
Check out last year’s project on YouTube!! 
We are trying to realize the third consecutive Mandala Project. Our goal is to fill 10,000 square feet of public park space with a painting made of biodegradeable colored sawdust. Our costs are for materials only; all the labor is volunteered by people like you! Will you join the growing list of businesses and individuals already supporting us?
There are several ways you can help us make this project happen:
Paypal- Click HERE for a direct link, or:
Go to: www.paypal.com
Click: send money
Send to email: janainavmarques@gmail.com
Send Checks to:
The Missoula Mandala Project
c/o Janaina and Pedro Marques
530 N. 3rd St. W.
Missoula, MT 59802
Thank you very much for your support,
The Missoula Mandala Project
Pedro and Janaina
Thank you to all of the individuals and businesses who lent a hand to help us create the 2009 Missoula Mandala during Dia de Los Muertos last Monday, Nov. 2!!!
It was a gorgeous day at Caras Park and nearly 40 people came by throughout the day to spread sawdust and collectively create a bright and beautiful piece of art. We hope you had as much fun as we did!
If you weren’t able to make it down that day, we hope you at least got to see the piece! It lasted less than 24 hours and the colored sawdust is now mulching a nursery of trees for restoration projects.
We are lucky this year to have filmed the process of creating the Mandala in high definition video. We are hoping to produce a short, 7-minute piece about this project to use for future fundraising. Click on the DONATE button on the right and help us produce this short film and keep this project alive!!
There is also a short piece in the Missoulian about the project:
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_c8087cbe-c8ff-11de-81d2-001cc4c03286.html
Thank you again for your continued support of this project!! See you next year!
Sincerely,
Janaina and Pedro Marques
