Murals and Mosaics
Murals and Mosaics
A series that aims to capture, catalog and celebrate the beauty of Chicago’s streets, as seen through its public art.
Construction of roadways and bridges decades ago brought a kind of starkness to residential areas in the south suburb, which is now using public art as part of a plan for beautification.
Chicago artist Jason Messinger created the murals in 2018 during a Blue Line station renovation and says his aim was for “people to look at this for 30 seconds and transport them on a mini-vacation of the mind. Each mural is an abstract idea of a vacation destination.”
Newsletters
This week’s murals and mosaics newsletter features a sci-fi mural in Berwyn, mysterious penguin paintings and public art in nearby Milwaukee.
A sprawling mural on Chicago’s Near West Side, viaduct art inspired by Aztec and Mayan art and public art in Kansas City are all featured in this week’s newsletter.
This week’s newsletter features a viaduct mural that brings something beautiful to a gloomy viaduct, religious murals and mosaics and revitalized South Side art.