PAGE 12: “The mural has several parts spread across three walls,” explained Honors Tutorial College junior Asher Pollock, whose Art and Entrepreneurship class designed and painted it. They mixed “a classical scenic wall painting with a contemporary flair, noticeable in the color scheme and the little bread thief, the inspiration for which was the outlaw street artist Banksy.” Photo by Sarah McDowell, BFA ’02 LEFT: Murals “are public, democratic, and free,” said OHIO graduate student Barry O’Keefe, who created this one in Nelsonville to honor its brick industry. BOTTOM: “A coal miner 25 feet tall, that’s reverent,” said O’Keefe, “because that piece of this area’s history is often not visible.” Photos by John Halley, MFA ’87 For more about the local murals, go online to ohiotoday.org/spring-2016.
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