From the outside, most churches look familiar, brick, steeple, stained glass. But Lansing’s Sycamore Creek Church is turning heads for something very different.
“The design brief was about amplifying the creative programming that’s happening on the inside,” says Dustin Hunt an artists hired to paint the outside of the church. “So, with that, I just thought, well, let’s create something that’s really striking, dynamic, maybe dramatic, colorful and somewhat unusual to draw attention in from everybody passing by, and just to get folks wondering what the heck is happening inside that church building.”
Dustin says he designed it to feel alive.
“You have a lot of movement, shape and color that’s kind of wrapping itself around the building. The idea was to have to create something that felt like it was growing on the building.”
For Pastor Tom Arthur, the mural was more than decoration.
“Basically he pointed out, you can’t change the shape of this building, it’s always going to look like a church. So he told me, I can put something on the outside that makes people stop and wonder.”…