Venus held a spray can and the sculpture of David got a modern look. Fifty artists created public art for all, some painting in direct sun, while some luckily had a spot in the shade under a highway overpass, during Jersey City’s Mural festival, held Saturday and Sunday in multiple sites across the city. The Hamilton Park neighborhood area has 35 new murals covering hundreds of thousands of .
This past year has been very good for public art around Chicago.
Not great for many people, given the pandemic, the crazy politics, the gut-wrenching racial unrest. But good for public art.
Chicago’s murals & mosaics
This is part of an ongoing series of stories on public art in the city and suburbs. More murals are being added every week.
The angst and anxiety thrust upon us in 2020 seemed to spur artists to paint even more deeply from the heart in an effort to capture what we were going through and maybe even provide a little balm for us all.