Paint like a pro! Newark artist Gregg Banks leads a visual art workshop featuring a tour of his artwork and a demonstration of painting techniques that inspire his work. There’s more fun in store when you pick up a brush and apply these techniques to the painting of a new community mural.
Gregg Banks is an award winning portrait artist and muralist. Throughout the NJ cities of Newark, Teaneck, and East Orange, Gregg has completed over a dozen murals. His work can be seen at Westside High School in Principal Cook’s office on all 4 walls. On the first floor corridor is the school logo ‘Rough Riders’ and on the 3rd floor in the Oprah Winfrey Opportunity Room is a portrait of Oprah. Gregg also has painted murals for other schools. On Weequahic High School’s cafeteria wall is the ‘March to Royalty’. At Peshine Ave. Elementary is a mural of their mascot ‘The Panthers are Back’ and at University High School, a Phoenix. At Yasmin’s Day Care 1 and 2., Gregg painted characters on the windows and the interior.
Gregg has won multiple awards for his painting submitted in Newark Portugal Day 2017 Art Exhibit & Contest ‘Portugal, Here and There’. Out of 25 artists who applied, he was chosen by the senior residents of the building to paint ‘The Historic Essex Plaza Lobby Mural’ titled ‘Scenes from The City of Newark’.
You can also find Gregg’s work in other spaces, such as the Essex County Courts Building where there is a storyboard mural depicting the process of achieving goals, Shiloh Baptist Church, where there is a mural in the pulpit titled ‘WORSHIP’, as well as Elmwood Park, Mocha Bleu Restaurant exterior, First Bethel Baptist Church and Good News Sounds of Pentecost Ministries.