Murals as "place" setters

Staff photos/Barbara Errickson. Vineland Daily Journal. A pedestrian walks past Rick's Market, which is really a mural on High Street next to Winfield's restaurant.

This article about Millville New Jersey's Glasstown Arts District, "ALL OF HIGH STREET'S THEIR CANVAS," discusses how the Arts District announces its presence through "simple" public art projects via murals. From the article:

[the city] will see its collection of curbside murals grow again this year. Murals showed up along North High Street soon after the Arts District opened. Some are permanent, such as a privately commissioned Egyptian motif on the side of Before and After Hair Center and Technique, and the publicly funded mosaics at the Chester M. Goodwin II Glasstown Plaza. Some murals are stopgaps, like the partially finished work in front of a fenced-in lot on the 700 block of North High Street, and another on the ground floor of the Levoy Theatre. Whether they are there forever or only a few years, the murals are seen as furthering the district's mission.

Window mural opportunities in Washington, DC. Photo by Inked78.

Index Keywords: arts-culture; urban-revitalization