This is a major accomplishment!... and potentially a tremendous opportunity for students to engage in Service-Learning. 

Professor Collins please let me know if we can support your work through Service-Learning, if you are not already planning to do so. Service-Learning, which is acknowledged in Miami's Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (in research, teaching and service areas) as well as on student transcripts, can facilitate students and others seeing this work in the context of service to that community and all who will behold the beauty of the art.

Please let me know how the Office of Community Engagement and Service can assist you.

Again, congratulations!
MW

Monica Ways
Director
Office of Community Engagement and Service
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"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."  The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Larry Winston Collins, associate professor of art, was selected along with Columbus photographer Kojo Kamau to collaborate on the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Long Street Bridge "Cultural Wall"<http://www.columbusunderground.com/odot-unveils-artwork-concepts-for-long-street-cultural-wall> project located in Columbus.

The bridge, scheduled to be completed in fall 2013, connects the I-71 overpass to the downtown area on the Near East side of Columbus known as the King-Lincoln area. The mural on the bridge will showcase the history and culture of the predominately African American area when the city was segregated.

ODOT accepted artists' proposals for the project last spring, considering only artists who have a connection to the Near East side. An advisory panel of Near East Side residents, artists and others guided the final selection of Collins and Kamau.

Collins received his bachelor's degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design and his MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Prior to joining Miami he taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

Among his notable works is a series of linoleum block prints depicting black artists such as Dizzie Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.

View a video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8L8vnt2zIs> interview with Collins (from Columbus Crossroads Presents).

For more of my work please check me out at - http://redroom.com/member/rodney-d-coates





The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child..
Kahlil Gibran


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Rodney D. Coates
Professor and Interim Director of Black World Studies