{"id":24359,"date":"2025-07-03T11:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=24359"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:10:49","slug":"stroudsburg-displays-dumpsters-painted-by-esu-art-media-design-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/stroudsburg-displays-dumpsters-painted-by-esu-art-media-design-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroudsburg Displays Dumpsters Painted by ESU Art + Media + Design Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 15px 15px;\" width=\"310\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6A3AvTdefo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>An influx of vibrant street art is brightening the community thanks to a collaboration with Stroudsburg Borough that saw East Stroudsburg University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esu.edu\/art\/index.cfm\">Art + Media + Design<\/a> students channel their creativity into an unlikely source.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the borough, students applied their artistry to 11 dumpsters that have been placed outside businesses throughout the downtown \u2013 a project that presented a one-of-a-kind opportunity for future artists to showcase their talents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always like to show the value of connecting students with the community, collaborating and offering real-world opportunities for them to be able to show their abilities,\u201d said Darlene Farris-LaBar, professor of Art + Media + Design and chair of the Art + Media + Design department.<\/p>\n<p>For students mostly used to working on a much smaller scale, dumpsters were a challenging \u2013 but fun \u2013 canvas to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing an artist is creating something for yourself and for others to enjoy, and this has been a very cool and very unique opportunity we were presented with to create something that will exist out in the community for everyone to see,\u201d said Mikenna Buyze, who graduated in May with a bachelor\u2019s degree in integrated art + design.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey Langan, a fellow integrated art + design graduate, created a design for outside the Goat on Main restaurant on Main Street that featured an octopus with food and drinks in its tentacles. Langan said much of the 20+ hours he spent on the project were dedicated to preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt honestly doesn\u2019t feel that long though because I\u2019m having so much fun, but there was a lot of hard work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For workers at the Goat on Main, Langan\u2019s design was a welcome addition to an object many might consider an eyesore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything you can do to make things nicer is going to make people happier,\u201d said Kyle Moucha, bar manager at Goat on Main. \u201cThe design we got really pops and fits what we\u2019re doing here with our funky, art-centric vibe, and we\u2019ve been getting a lot of cool attention from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each dumpster required hours of sanding to get the surface just right, then needed to be primed before painting could even begin. Due to the number of dumpsters and their size, students worked on their designs outdoors in a grassy area behind ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>Most students participated as part of their final projects for their Art 356 Painting II class, including several seniors who graduated in May but returned to campus to complete their designs due to stretches of rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>Others got involved through internships, independent study or clubs and organizations like the Artist Guild and Media Production Club. Students who design and build sets for ESU theatre productions also painted a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>Students worked individually, in pairs or as a group. Spring graduate Emily Brier and junior Jourdyn Whitehurst teamed up to create a nature-themed design for outside Ann Street Mart on Williams Street. Painted on the dumpster were deer, squirrels, raccoons and other critters common to the Pocono Mountains region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re essential to our area and to life, so I just wanted to show that and help erase the stigma some of these animals have,\u201d Brier said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to do something that captured the area in a fun, colorful way, but in my own personal style,\u201d added Whitehurst.<\/p>\n<p>Students who also worked on the project were Ryan Ackerman, Iro Bonellis, Elina Braverman, John Capurso, Jessica Curzio, Cody Dominie, Kelsey Foy, Gregory Haberkern, Elizabeth Kilpatrick, Mason Higgins, Olivia Klein, Elaina Lembo, Mia Mendia, Aliyah Motley, Brianna Vongmany and Kalista Weed.<\/p>\n<p>Josephine Coniglio, instructor of Art + Media + Design, led the complex logistics of the project. She helped recruit students, refined their designs and presented them to borough and university officials for review. She also helped secure materials that could be used effectively on a dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just working on a project that is going to a home or inside a business. This is a highly collaborative and highly creative opportunity, and we\u2019re really proud of the work these students have done,\u201d Coniglio said.<\/p>\n<p>Students said the project was yet another way ESU helps position them for their future careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs artists, ESU does a really good job of giving us opportunities to make a career out of this, which is very valuable and very important,\u201d Whitehurst said. \u201cBy doing these dumpsters and having them in the community, I now have that exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dumpsters can be found at these locations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryan Ackerman, Aliyah Motley &amp; Brianna Vongmany \u2013 Keller Williams Realty \u2013 404 Park Ave.<\/li>\n<li>Iro Bonellis \u2013 Italian American Club \u2013 408 Main St.<\/li>\n<li>Emily Brier &amp; Jourdyn Whitehurst \u2013 Ann Street Mart \u2013 19 Williams St.<\/li>\n<li>Mikenna Buyze \u2013 Mixed business\/residential \u2013 North 4<sup>th<\/sup> &amp; McConnell streets<\/li>\n<li>John Capurso, Cody Dominie &amp; Gregory Haberkern \u2013 Cheers Beverage \u2013 830 Monroe St.<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Curzio, Elizabeth Kilpatrick &amp; Mia Mendia \u2013 United Way \u2013 301 McConnell St.<\/li>\n<li>Kelsey Foy &amp; Kalista Weed \u2013 Dunkelberger\u2019s Sports Outfitters \u2013 585 Main Street<\/li>\n<li>Mason Higgins &amp; Olivia Klein \u2013 New Moon New You \u2013 22 South 6<sup>th<\/sup> St.<\/li>\n<li>Dempsey Langan \u2013 The Goat on Main \u2013 500 Main St.<\/li>\n<li>Elaina Lembo \u2013 Subway \u2013 136 North 9<sup>th<\/sup> St.<\/li>\n<li>Kalista Weed \u2013 Tony\u2019s Auto Repair \u2013 826 Ann St.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with the borough, students applied their artistry to 11 dumpsters that have been placed outside businesses throughout the downtown \u2013 a project that presented a one-of-a-kind opportunity for future artists to showcase their talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":24362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24364,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}