Public Art

  • Venice Murals

    In Murals: Venice — Then and Now?

    Found in Venice of America: Two Venice murals -- one of present day Venice (Venice Kinesis- a modern take on the original 'The birth of Venus' ) and the other, a depiction of a bygone era....
  • Venice of America mural, Jules Muck

    Venice of America murals

    Found in Venice, CA: Venice of America mural by Jules Muck and a wall painting of Abbot Kinney, the name and face behind Venice, California. ...
  • Wildlife Mural, Three Rivers, CA

    Wildlife Mural from Three Rivers

    Here’s another mural from Three Rivers, California, and yet another one by artist Nadi Spencer. A few weeks ago, up here was a post on a mural called How Crow Became Black. That was a mural based on a story of the Native Americans who called this area home....
  • Kaweah River?

    Kaweah River on the fence?

    Found in Three Rivers, CA: a painting of a river and its green and rocky environment. One for Monday Mural. ...
  • MondayMural: How Crow Became Black

    For this week’s Monday Mural, is an interesting mural from Three Rivers, California. I spotted this mural at the Village Centre in Three Rivers, when we went out to lunch at a Mexican Restaurant in the town. The mural seemed to say, ‘TRUS 2009 with Nadi Spencer’ and I...
  • Thousand Lakes Wilderness mural

    Found in Burney: Thousand Lakes Wilderness mural

    This Thousand Lake Wilderness mural was found in Burney, California. Burney is a small town in the Southern Cascades in Northern California. It lies somewhere between Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen, two famous volcanoes of the Cascade Mountain Range.  We were in Burney, CA in the summer, when we’d made a trip...
  • luggage installation art

    Found in SeaTac: Rainmaker’s Baggage

    A few years ago, while we were waiting at the SeaTac International Airport in Washington, I came across an eye-catching installation art near one of the luggage carousels at the airport. It was a line up of vintage suitcases and bags. The luggage seemed to be strung onto a steel...
  • ‘Mack and the Boys’ of Cannery Row

    I found these six men on a wall by the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Monterey, California. If you look at it closely, you might see some men from another age. According to John Cerney, ‘cannery workers from the 1930s’ are the subjects of this work of art. But if...
  • A panel of authors to look up to

    The Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Dublin, California has just the right kind of wall art for a bookstore. That corner of the bookstore where the Starbucks is, is marked with a couple of panels and paintings-on-the-wall. And what might the subject be — the most celebrated authors —...
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