The Agenda

In the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, the Tape Artists created the Hope Mural – a three-story-high drawing – in the center of the rescue operation during the recovery efforts. The mural took 58 hours to create. Using blue tape, the artists depicted a spontaneous image of renewal in a city shocked and reeling from a national tragedy. The events in Oklahoma were spontaneous, and began the tape artists’ entrance into city hospitals. For the past ten years, grounded by this experience, the tape-artists have been going to Rhode Island Children’s Hospital every week to draw and create for the staff and the children.