painting the town, literally | Pad Patter 4 Sept

[bellbird]

Do you have 'street art' or murals in your town or city?

I had to go somewhere this week that I've been to before a few years back, and pass vaguely by several times a year but generally don't stop at. Anyway, the escalator to get out on the way back to the street wasn't working so i was directed out a different exit that i hadn't been out of before, and so i walked a less direct path back to where i parked and on the way i saw an amazing mural!
There is something about massive art that i really like (drawing & painting something on paper is hard enough for me to do, throw in making it work on a vertical surface and the sheer size and scale and my brain implodes at the thought). Anyway, i was kicking myself that i didn't take a photo of it but i found one online to show the kids.

This is what i saw and apparently it's been there for years, down a laneway and there's been like a full-on mural festival in town annually for the last few years and i didn't even know!

 

[IntenseMagic]

Our whole downtown area is lined with murals and there is an alley way that is designated "Artist's Way". These are from a few years back. There have been some changes to the library ones and more added

 

[bellbird]

Our whole downtown area is lined with murals and there is an alley way that is designated "Artist's Way". These are from a few years back. There have been some changes to the library ones and more added
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Oh wow that's so cool! The book one is genius for a library!

 

[HavaDrPepper]

For many years, a store in our downtown area that was closed down had a huge mural honoring Neil Armstrong across the boarded windows. Sadly, it is gone but not sadly, a thrift store in is its place. The building used to house a WT Grant store when I was growing up. WT Grant was a chain of department stores. I think of it as the wal-mart of my childhood.

These days the "First On The Moon" committee is having an art contest in conjunction with an art center located downtown. The artwork will be featured on items to be sold to benefit the public arts program. Some of the artwork is being put on the large utility boxes around town. So instead of seeing big gray boxes, there will be colorful artwork related to "The Sky's The Limit: One Giant Leap" theme.

Also, the state department of transportation for our district has a competition each year where they allow a class of students to paint a snowplow blade. And, yes, they are used during the snowplowing season! I used to work across from their building and they have the plow blades displayed by the road for 8 to 9 months of the year (when not in use). Was always cool to see them.

 

[bellbird]

Some of the artwork is being put on the large utility boxes around town. So instead of seeing big gray boxes, there will be colorful artwork related to "The Sky's The Limit: One Giant Leap" theme.

we have a similar art program for the 'grey boxes' in town but there's no set theme that i can tell, there is a cool one that has kind of flying books against a sunset and one that is rather cool with robotic gears and stuff on it in a more mechanical/industrial area, but sadly, it was graffiti'd over the top of within weeks of it being painted - i think that annoys me more than anything

the state department of transportation for our district has a competition each year where they allow a class of students to paint a snowplow blade. And, yes, they are used during the snowplowing season! I used to work across from their building and they have the plow blades displayed by the road for 8 to 9 months of the year (when not in use). Was always cool to see them.

i love this idea! fun and functional!