A Special Holiday Video Message from BU Today
A Special Holiday Video Message from BU Today
Alum artist Big Sam spray-paints the BU Rock with holiday cheer
This video was first published in BU Today on December 16, 2022. Video by Devin Hahn | Photo by Cydney Scott
Excerpt
Artist “Big Sam” Weinberger is known for creating impressive large-scale murals that you sometimes need to crane your neck to appreciate, like his Big Optimism mural in West Palm Beach, Fla., which stands 35 feet tall and is 150 feet wide (think of the side of a three-story building), and closer to home, the 5-foot-tall, 100-foot-long mural that pays tribute to frontline workers at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton.
But for our annual holiday video, we asked Big Sam (CFA’21), who himself stands nearly seven feet, to direct his gaze downward. Our request: design and paint a holiday tableau on a famous denizen of the BU Beach: the BU Rock. As he worked on a recent cold winter day, he was joined by the BU Allegrettos a cappella group, who performed their arrangement of Andrew Huang’s modern holiday classic “You Make Winter Warm.” Take a look.