The Boynton Beach Green Market, 129 E Ocean Ave., will have muralists Judy Dempsey and David Nau assisting teens from the Youth Violence Prevention Program to paint a Kwanzaa Mural from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 27.
Sandra Watson, a Youth Violence Prevention Porgram service provider who had a group participate in last year’s Heritage Highwaymen Mural Program that the Art in Public Places program facilitated, approached the two muralists to teach a similar program this year.
Debby Coles-Dobay, the city's public art administrator, said during a four-week period, the artists taught classes in which the teens learned about the seven principals of Kwanzaa, how to individually express the colors and textures of the Kwanzaa celebration, and collaboratively created a banner depicting the Kwanzaa celebration.
The banner will be on display at Saturday's Green Market and the group will do a live 4-foot-by-6-foot mural demonstration.
The Art in Public Places program will support this effort by assisting to publicly display the mural when it is completed.
Coles-Dobay said she is urging residents to come out and see the banner and meet the teens.
Mike Rothman can be reached at mkrothman@tribune.com.