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York Road-Benninghaus Ave. Mural
Come to the Ribbon-cutting Ceremony
on Wednesday, November 4th at 2 pm.
Here are the details of the ceremony
This was the process . . .
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A group of neighbors is working with the City Paint
Program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion of the Arts (BOPA) to replace the mural that was lost when the wall disintegrated a couple of years
ago.
After contacting organizations for people interested in working on this project, (YRP, GBA, churches and neighborhood associations)
a group was formed that is committed to working with their neighborhoods and BOPA on this process.
The process of restoring the mural involves several steps:
deciding on a Theme
Request for Proposals from interested artists
- Check out CityPaint, to learn about the Baltimore Mural Program.
Pass the word about this project to any artists you know that might be intersted.
Here is the RFP which has been sent out by BoPA.
choosing an artist
- The deadline for artists to submit a proposal is July 31st.
The mural project group will be meeting during the first week of August to review proposals that are submitted. After a meeting with BoPA on August 11th and reviewing proposed sketches submitted by several artists, the committee voted to work with artist Lyle Kissack to develop the final design.
Here is a preliminary sketch ,
and an expanded view of one panel:
In addition, here is the artist's description of the message he is trying to convey.
now working with artist to develop the design, particularly to ensure the panels have identifiable Govans landmarks.
installing the mural
celebrating the 'return' of the mural
