• Mural Mondays,  Murals

    Mural Monday Discoveries

    I’ve discovered another mural from Mural Locator. This is a great mural site and they are popping up in my alerts all the time now and I’m glad I have them in my blogroll. Here’s the most recent one located in Grand Rapids, MI. Funky but interesting and I’m not sure what it all mean. Come to find out via this story on The Measure, evidentally the Mural Locator doesn’t have many murals from DC recorded. There are many right around my house, so I’ll have to photograph an add them soon, but this will be for Alexandria, VA, as there is nothing submitted for this location, and at least…

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  • Education,  Everyday,  Mural Mondays,  Murals,  Uncategorized

    Murals that Teach

    Finding murals that teach something and last long beyond their time, literally that is, with vines that are meant to grow on top is a very admirable thing. I was first taken with this picture for a mural with components that can be removed. Then, I was even more struck by how this mural in Windsor, Canada is part of an ongoing program with federal grant money and help from local artists to help train the unemployed or underemployed who have artistic aspirations. Other murals that teach are murals that students see and therefore live with every day. I discovered these murals quite by accident and found their location coincidental…

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