ROCKFORD After a yearlong hiatus due to the pandemic, a public art festival will return this summer with more murals in more cities.
Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau on Friday announced this year s CRE8IV: Transformational ART mural initiative in which paintings will be added to some of the city s barren walls. This year s festival will add 12 murals across the region, with paintings in Rockford and three new cities: Loves Park, Pecatonica and Rockton.
The announcement was made at La Chiquita supermarket, 1108 S. Main St., which will serve as a home to one of the murals set to be created by Jenny Roesel Ustick of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Atalie Gagnet of Dayton, Ohio.