Chicago Sun-Times: All posts by Madison Savedra2020-08-21T11:00:00-05:00https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/madison-savedra/rss2020-08-21T11:00:00-05:002020-08-22T17:48:27-05:00Juice WRLD memorialized in Chicago murals by Corey Pane, Chris Devins
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<img class="Image" alt="Artist Corey Pane says he created this mural of Juice WRLD in a viaduct in the 800 block of West Hubbard Street near the Kennedy Expressway to celebrate the life of the Chicago rapper who died in December." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e270fd5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1010+0+509/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F5yy9oitKWy84JJGk_x889E974nc%3D%2F0x0%3A1800x2029%2F1800x2029%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28800x974%3A801x975%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21784060%2FJuice_WRLD.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7b9c267/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1010+0+509/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F5yy9oitKWy84JJGk_x889E974nc%3D%2F0x0%3A1800x2029%2F1800x2029%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28800x974%3A801x975%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21784060%2FJuice_WRLD.png 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Artist Corey Pane says he created this mural of Juice WRLD on a viaduct in the 800 block of West Hubbard Street near the Kennedy Expressway to celebrate the life of the Chicago rapper who died in December.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">Two artists are trying to keep the memory of Jarad Anthony Higgins — the rapper known as Juice WRLD — alive in his hometown of Chicago.</div><p></p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-980000" name="module-980000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>Artists Corey Pane and Chris Devins painted murals memorializing the rapper, who was 21 when <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2020/1/22/21077566/juice-wrld-cause-of-death-autopsy-oxycodone-codeine-overdose-midway-airport" target="_blank" >he died last December</a> from what was found to have been an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine after landing at Midway Airport.</p><p>One of Pane’s murals is a portrait of Juice WRLD surrounded by butterflies and shooting stars that’s similar to the cover design for his recent posthumous album “Legends Never Die.”</p><p>Juice WRLD’s managers commissioned Pane to help design the album cover and the mural — which he painted on a viaduct in the 800 block of West Hubbard Street by the Kennedy Expressway — after the Connecticut artist painted a portrait of the rapper as a gift for a friend.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<img class="Image" alt="Corey Pane, who, before painting the Hubbard Street mural of Juice WRLD, helped design the cover for the rapper’s album “Legends Never Die.”" srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/0a377ef/2147483647/strip/true/crop/750x421+0+40/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F0H1ylgIt-91_m28TK1M1mp-1pLc%3D%2F0x0%3A750x500%2F750x500%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28375x250%3A376x251%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699510%2Fpane_headshot.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ee6f76b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/750x421+0+40/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F0H1ylgIt-91_m28TK1M1mp-1pLc%3D%2F0x0%3A750x500%2F750x500%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28375x250%3A376x251%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699510%2Fpane_headshot.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Before painting the Hubbard Street mural of Juice WRLD, Corey Pane (above) helped design the cover for the rapper’s “Legends Never Die.”</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Pane says he hopes his art will help bring together the rapper’s fans in celebration of his music and that he’s heard some people have traveled hours to see the mural.</p><p>“When they go to the mural, it’s almost like bringing him back to life and bringing his spirit back to life,” says Pane, 31. “If I can bring them that moment, then that’s amazing.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<img class="Image" alt="Corey Pane working on the Juice WRLD mural on Hubbard Street in July 2020." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8ba4b8c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1026x428+0+389/resize/1440x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FWgfmK-0YprqikjBlS0wsl44gGUM%3D%2F0x0%3A1026x1206%2F1026x1206%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28513x603%3A514x604%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21730051%2FScreen_Shot_2020_08_12_at_12.23.30_PM.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7b67d48/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1026x428+0+389/resize/2880x1200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FWgfmK-0YprqikjBlS0wsl44gGUM%3D%2F0x0%3A1026x1206%2F1026x1206%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28513x603%3A514x604%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21730051%2FScreen_Shot_2020_08_12_at_12.23.30_PM.png 2x" width="1440" height="600"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Corey Pane working on his Juice WRLD mural on Hubbard Street in July.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Pane says he wanted the portrait to be similar to the album cover and added “the metamorphosis of a butterfly” to symbolize Juice WRLD’s legacy in death, “becoming something even bigger.”</p><p>Miles south of his work on Hubbard Street, Devins painted his own tribute to Juice WRLD on a building at 737 W. 59th St. in Englewood.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Chris Devins in front of his Juice WRLD mural on the South Side.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Devins says he was “floored” when he heard “Legends Never Die,” which came out in July, and thought, “I’ve got to do something about this guy.</p><p>“I try to highlight positive things that come up out of the community of the South Side and Chicago in general,” the Chicago artist says. “A lot of times, we’re focusing on some of the negatives that happen in Chicago.”</p><p>This Englewood mural portrays the rapper with wings and a halo, a nod to him being “amongst the angels,” Devins says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<img class="Image" alt="Chris Devins painted his Juice WRLD mural on the side of a building at 737 W. 59th St." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/549ad44/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F98lbrFuEQoftrNHu47gJA5_EX6U%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699536%2FBob_devins_mural.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/cd2f5cf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F98lbrFuEQoftrNHu47gJA5_EX6U%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699536%2FBob_devins_mural.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Chris Devins painted his Juice WRLD mural on the side of a building at 737 W. 59th St.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Robert Herguth / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Pane also did another Juice WRLD mural, at 7853 S. Essex Ave. in South Shore, showing him amid clouds and beneath the words “Never Leave My Brothers.” That mural was painted over shortly after he finished it in late July. There are conflicting accounts about who did that and why.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<img class="Image" alt="Corey Pane in front of his South Shore mural of Juice WRLD before it was painted over." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aafe3a2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F6k0BDZbMg-fVtekDgHTfpYEa77E%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699540%2Fpane_south_shore_mural.jpeg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/794d0f2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2263+0+381/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F6k0BDZbMg-fVtekDgHTfpYEa77E%3D%2F0x0%3A4032x3024%2F4032x3024%2Ffilters%3Afocal%282016x1512%3A2017x1513%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F21699540%2Fpane_south_shore_mural.jpeg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Corey Pane in front of his South Shore mural of Juice WRLD before it was painted over.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Tayler Nash, who worked with Juice WRLD’s management to help direct the album cover and Pane’s murals, says the idea was to create “spaces where people, fans, anyone can come and congregate and mourn and celebrate. No one was able to really mourn Juice when he passed, it was so shocking and just disappointing. He just deserves so much more.”</p><div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center>
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/8/21/21356076/juice-wrld-chicago-murals-corey-pane-chris-devins-jarad-anthony-higginsMadison Savedra2020-07-24T11:15:00-05:002020-07-22T15:54:58-05:00Chicago murals: Tony Passero is brightening ‘dark and dank’ viaducts one vibrant mural at a time
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<img class="Image" alt="‘Hep Cat Mural,’ painted in 2013, was Tony Passero’s first Chicago mural. It’s at 4820 N. Cicero Ave. — a Kennedy Expressway viaduct." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/10864a7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1494x838+0+132/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FgiRq6EjCZ3Wf3KsuTgzz01WnnKM%3D%2F0x0%3A1494x1102%2F1494x1102%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28747x551%3A748x552%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20096288%2Fhep_cat_full.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3bbb1db/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1494x838+0+132/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FgiRq6EjCZ3Wf3KsuTgzz01WnnKM%3D%2F0x0%3A1494x1102%2F1494x1102%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28747x551%3A748x552%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20096288%2Fhep_cat_full.png 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>‘Hep Cat Mural,’ painted in 2013, was Tony Passero’s first Chicago mural. It’s at 4820 N. Cicero Ave. — a Kennedy Expressway viaduct.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<p>So imagine that one morning you tell your spouse you’re quitting your job to become an artist. That’s basically what Tony Passero — who has created some of Chicago’s most recognizable murals — did.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-000000" name="module-000000"></a>
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</div><p>The Chicago native worked in advertising for more than 20 years before deciding to follow his dream to be a painter. Now, he has created more than a dozen murals across the city.</p><p>Passero, 53, says that, with no formal education in art, he began doodling and sketching seven years ago to cope with a health scare.</p><p>“I started thinking about legacy and what I wanted people to remember me about,” Passero says. “I think if my kids were, like, ‘Hey, my dad tried to create things and make the world a better place through art’ — not that I do that, but I try — that was a better legacy to me. And I think I just threw myself at it.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<img class="Image" alt="Tony Passero in front of his 2014 “Whoot Mural” — so named for the giant owl it features — which can be seen on Belmont Avenue between a Kennedy Expressway exit ramp and Kedzie Avenue." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2470689/2147483647/strip/true/crop/899x375+0+482/resize/1440x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FFo7eMiyQaHhnC3pXSToDGi6D6NE%3D%2F0x0%3A899x1338%2F899x1338%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28450x669%3A451x670%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20096335%2Fpassero_headshot.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b6584c7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/899x375+0+482/resize/2880x1200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FFo7eMiyQaHhnC3pXSToDGi6D6NE%3D%2F0x0%3A899x1338%2F899x1338%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28450x669%3A451x670%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20096335%2Fpassero_headshot.jpg 2x" width="1440" height="600"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tony Passero in front of his 2014 “Whoot Mural” — so named for the giant owl it features — which can be seen on Belmont Avenue between a Kennedy Expressway exit ramp and Kedzie Avenue.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Passero — who says he’s now in good health — graduated from notebook sketches to canvases and eventually to the viaduct walls where most of his murals can be found, beneath L tracks, Lake Shore Drive and the Kennedy Expressway.</p><p>“I’d walk my kids to school, and we’d go under a viaduct, and it would be filled with pigeon poop and garbage and all that stuff,” he says. “And I’m, like, ‘Why isn’t a mural done here?’ </p><p>“I started reading and researching and basically went to an alderman, saying, ‘Hey, can I put a mural here?’ ”</p><p>That’s how Passero’s first mural — “Hep Cat Mural,” a Kennedy Expressway viaduct at 4820 N. Cicero Ave. — came to be in 2013.</p><p>It features a giant, Cheshire-smiling cat with piano keys for teeth and takes up most of the viaduct wall with funky colors and hand-drawn patterns.</p><p>The title is a nod to what a talented jazz performer would be called in the 1940s and 1950s.</p><p>“A lot of cars back up and stay underneath this viaduct, so, as you look to your right, you’re looking at this awful, ugly wall,” Passero says. “I largely thought: What could be something fun that would amuse people as they’re sitting in their cars?”</p><p>For most of his murals, Passero says he leans toward playful themes. So he paints a lot of animals.</p><p>One of his favorites is “CoyWolf Mural,” featuring back-to-back images of two coyote-wolf hybrids at 1800 N. Damen Ave. — at one of the entrances to The 606 Trail. Passero says he used to live nearby and would see an animal on the railroad tracks that he couldn’t make out whether it was a coyote or a wolf.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p>Another of his murals — fittingly called “Under LSD Mural” — can be seen underneath Lake Shore Drive at the entrance to Montrose beach, with six colorful fish he describes as “Caribbean-influenced” along the length of the wall. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Tony Passero’s “Under LSD Mural” features six brightly colored fish at the entrance to Montrose beach.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Passero says he wondered: “How can you convert what is dark and dank, where people walk through or drive through all the time, into something that’s more of a gateway destination into Montrose Harbor?” Then, he contacted the alderman about doing the mural. </p><p>Passero’s most recent mural is titled “Tierra Mural,” done last year along the North Branch River Trail in LaBagh Woods, 5275 N. Cicero Ave. It features nature-themed images, including suns with faces, a snake, a turtle, a bird and a big tree.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p>“He’s got such a creative mind,” says Jesus Crespo, who worked with Passero on the mural. “Artwork seems like natural extension of himself.”</p><p>Dan Pogorzelski, a friend of Passero who’s worked on several murals with him, calls Passero’s art a “spiritual practice.” And he says Passero’s ability to move so easily to painting for a living shows that “Chicago is a city that cares more about what you can do than what your credentials are.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/7/24/21328968/chicago-murals-tony-passero-hep-cat-mural-viaductsMadison Savedra2020-07-10T11:00:00-05:002020-07-13T12:00:08-05:00Chicago murals, public art: Dozens of CTA L, bus stations are home to murals, mosaics and sculptures
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Kyungmi Shin’s Granville mosaic was completed in 2014, depicting the impressions of buildings surrounding the station.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">The L is proving to be a powerful vehicle for public art in Chicago and the suburbs.</div><p></p><p>In recent years, the CTA has installed sprawling works of art at dozens of train and bus stations. There are now 72 murals, mosaics and sculptures at 61 locations, and another 13 stations have temporary artwork.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-6b0000" name="module-6b0000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>And many more murals can be found on CTA viaducts and retaining walls.</p><p>The CTA says the art is “not only intended to beautify the stations, it is also to promote a friendly, inviting atmosphere for riders, while also contributing to the neighborhoods they serve.”</p><p>Elizabeth Kelley, the CTA’s art program curator, says artists typically are chosen via an open call to apply, often in coordination with the local alderman.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-730000" name="module-730000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><br><i>Lea este artículo en español en </i><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/" target="_blank" ><i>La Voz Chicago</i></a>, <i>la sección bilingüe del Sun-Times.</i><br><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p>Among the art:<br></p><ul><li id="oLj9Af">At the 54th/Cermak Pink Line L station, painted ceramic tiles depicting the history of Cicero were designed by Chicago artist Nicole Gordon in 2004.</li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p></p><ul><li id="V3LnG6">At the Rockwell L station on the Brown Line, there’s a piece artist Thomas Skomski created in 2007 that includes glass-enclosed images of water, meant to represent the Chicago River, framed by charred wood that’s a nod to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.</li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Thomas Skomski’s work was installed at the Rockwell Brown Line station in 2007.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p></p><ul><li id="LcBpw0">At the Red Line’s Cermak/Chinatown L stop, a Chinese greeting on the stairway walls was painted by Indira Johnson in 2015.</li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>At the center of Indira Johnson’s artwork at the Cerman/Chinatown Red Line stop is a Chinese greeting.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“The art you see in the station gives you a little moment of respite, a little moment to think of something else,” Johnson says. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>A photo mural by Stephen Marc titled “South Side Weave,” completed in 2007, can be seen at the Red Line’s 79th Street L stop.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Aron Gent</p></div></div>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Sabina Ott‘s “A Red Line and a Cloud,” completed in 2007 at the CTA’s 63rd Street Red Line station.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Aron Gent</p></div></div>
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</div><p></p><ul><li id="cXDU9r">At the Pulaski Road Orange Line L stop, Pilsen muralist Hector Duarte worked with students to paint a mural in 1998 through the CTA’s old Adopt-a-Station program.</li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Hector Duarte’s mural at the CTA’s Pulaski Road Orange Line L station plays on the diversity of Archer Heights.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>At the center of the Duarte piece: a rose with flags as petals to represent the diverse backgrounds of Archer Heights. Surrounding the flower one white and one Black hand “represent unity and represent the future,” Duarte says.<br></p><ul><li id="d8s4Fn">Inside the Granville Red Line station, Los Angeles artist Kyungmi Shin used Edgewater as inspiration for a mosaic that features overlapping images of buildings on Granville Avenue.</li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>“Instead of looking at the famous buildings, I wanted to focus on the buildings on that street,” Shin says.<br></p><ul><li id="G2BFMY">At the Jefferson Park transit center’s bus terminal last year, Indianapolis artist Jamie Pawlus used glass to depict the sun centered in the universe in honor of Polish astronomer Copernicus and the neighborhood’s strong Polish heritage. </li></ul><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p></p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/7/10/21310542/chicago-murals-ctaMadison Savedra2020-06-26T11:00:00-05:002020-06-24T12:23:08-05:00Chicago murals: Canadian artist Jerry ‘birdO’ Rugg created massive iguana mural in Lakeview
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">Chicago isn’t the most tropical of places, but Canadian artist Jerry Rugg has helped Lake View feel a little more like tropical Latin America by creating a towering mural of a green iguana.</div><p></p><p>Native to parts of Mexico and South America, those lizards can grow to more than six feet long.</p><p>Rugg’s iguana, though, is considerably larger — spanning more than 40 feet across and high on a brick exterior wall of the El Nuevo Mexicano Restaurant, 2914 N. Clark St.</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-360000" name="module-360000"></a>
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</div><p>Rugg, who as an artist goes by the name “birdO,” says the 2018 painting has gotten him a lot of notice.</p><p>“I am constantly messaged or tagged on Instagram or contacted because of that mural,” says Rugg, 39, of Toronto. “I think Chicago has a really, really keen community that appreciates public art.”</p><p>Rugg used spray paint to create the iguana and geometric shapes that are a “recognizable motif” in his works. He likes to feature animals in his murals.</p><p>“There’s usually a specific way to connect a community or individual to a particular animal,” he says. “I liked that you sort of had a reptile being a warm-weather creature in regards to the business that runs in the place is a Mexican restaurant.”</p><p>Maria Rodriguez, who owns El Nuevo Mexicano, says of the painting: “I often find people standing in front of it and someone else taking a picture.”</p><p>Besides his recognizable art style, Rugg’s also known for the bird helmet he wears to mask his identity.</p><p>“I’m a surreal painter, so I’ve always remained a surreal artist,” he says. “Being in the world of all of us putting stuff out there in the digital space, I’m pretty old-fashioned. I love my privacy, so I’ve really opted and stuck with keeping the disguise on. And I quite enjoy it.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>The artwork was commissioned by the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce and the Chicago Truborn art gallery to “spruce up the area” and make it more “art friendly,” according to Maureen Martino, the chamber’s executive director.</p><p>Rugg, long a fan of Chicago, says he was excited to visit for what he calls a “spray-cation” to create the iguana mural and see the sights of the city.</p><p>“I like painting big,” he says of the massive scale. “There’s an exhilaration to it.”</p><p>As a teenager in Canada, Rugg says he did graffiti art, painting words and letters, as well as painting “patchworks and patterns” on freight trains.</p><p>“I couldn’t wait for trains to come by,” Rugg says. “I used to sit under a bridge and watch trains go by for hours and hours. That was my humble beginnings.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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</div><p>He’s also done a mural that can be seen on the wall of a Chicago Avenue viaduct west of Halsted Street, where Metra trains rumble overhead, near other works of public art.</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/6/26/21295154/chicago-murals-jerry-rugg-birdo-iguanaMadison Savedra2020-06-12T11:00:00-05:002020-06-11T16:31:17-05:00Chicago murals: Rev. Siddha Webber’s King Drive murals in Bronzeville speak of black hope, spirituality
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The late Chicago artist the Rev. Siddha Webber painted this mural, titled, “Earth Is Not Our Home,” in 1981 and restored it in 2015. It’s at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 40th Street in Bronzeville.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Robert Herguth / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">Blocks from where thousands recently gathered in Bronzeville after the killing of George Floyd are two murals painted by the Rev. C. Siddha Webber, the late Chicago artist, poet and minister, that portray images of hope and spirituality among African Americans.</div><p></p><p>His murals — titled “Earth Is Not Our Home” and “Have A Dream” — stand sentry on opposite sides of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at 40th Street.</p><p>“They bring into the African American community that we are not just a people who are in a state of despair,” says Oafrikara Webber, Webber’s daughter. “We have something that we can aspire to be. Hopefully, a kid passing by will see and read the murals and the messages.”</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-hangRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-bc0000" name="module-bc0000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>“Earth Is Not Our Home,” created in 1981 on the west side of the street, features abstract figures in blue, purple, orange and green surrounding the focal point of a Native American man in a gold headdress.</p><p>Over some parts of the mural, Webber, a founding member of the Chicago Public Art Group, painted psalms in white and the words “Love God.”</p><p>Oafrikara Webber, 44, was a child when her father painted “Earth Is Not Our Home.” She remembers helping paint it.</p><p>She says he was trying to convey a message about spirituality, reflecting his faith as an ordained minister with a doctorate in theology from McCormick Theological Seminary.</p><p>“He wanted to make sure that everyone knew that there is a journey far beyond the realms of the earth,” Oafrikara Webber says, and to help “revitalize the community through art and culture,” which he had been doing since the 1960s.</p><p>Anytime her father painted a mural, he would talk with people passing by.</p><p>“In our community, you don’t see much art,” she says. “Many times, when he was working on his murals, he would be working on them alone, and a young kid or a teenager would come and say, ‘Oh, hey, that looks cool,’ and he would say, ‘Hey, get a paintbrush.’ And from there, that kid would get a paintbrush and start painting with him.”</p><p>Jon Pounds, former executive director of the Chicago Public Art Group, says the street mural movement that traces to the 1960s was meant to celebrate black life and culture.</p><p>Pounds remembers Webber, “a master artist,” painting “Have A Dream” in 1995 across the street from “Earth Is Not Our Home.”</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The Rev. Sidda Webber’s 1995 mural “Have A Dream” at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and 40th Street spotlights the civil rights leader and his famous “I Have A Dream” speech.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Robert Herguth / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>“His work was done instinctively in the sense that he could see an opportunity and ponder it, design for it and be prepared to create it,” Pounds says. “He did not look for money first thing. He saw the opportunity and wanted to be able to affect change through his process.”</p><p>“Have A Dream” features several images of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. over a blue-and-purple background and an excerpt from King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.</p><p>Jeff Huebner, a Chicago art writer and mural historian, says he met Webber in 1995 while he was painting “Have A Dream” and was struck by his use of purple and gold.</p><p>“Those colors are associated with royalty, with dignity,” Huebner says, lending “more legitimacy to everyday people.”</p><p>In 2015, Webber repainted “Earth Is Not Our Home” and “Have A Dream,” which were beginning to fade. He kept the first faithful to its original scheme but reimagined “Have a Dream” to add a purple-and-gold portrait of President Barack Obama and an image of Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League team, which was stripped of its 2014 U.S. championship over age violations. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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</div><p>Oafrikara Webber says that, with “Have a Dream,” her father “wanted to extend the leaders so that the younger people and generations could look and actually say, ‘Look, that was my president, that was Obama.’ They can have somebody to look up to and say, ‘I know who this person is.’ Even with the kids on the Little League baseball team, ‘I know who those kids are,’ and give other kids in the community something to aspire to.”</p><p>Bronzeville native Dwayne Wriddley, an artist who works with the Chicago Park District, helped restore “Have A Dream.”</p><p>“This was my chance to paint with a legend,” says Wriddley, 51, who saw the muralist working by himself, asked if he needed help, then jumped in.</p><p>The two murals’ messages of love, unity and history “had already resonated in people’s minds of what we’ve been through, the struggles,” Wriddley says.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangLeft>
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</div><p>Though Webber died in 2016 at 72, his daughter says he lives on through the more than 50 murals he painted and efforts such as the Universal Alley Jazz Jam that he organized, presenting live jazz and spoken-word poetry.</p><p>Sarah Webber, the artist’s widow, says, “He really dedicated himself to art,” aiming to “bring more people to Christ through his art and music.”</p><p>Pounds says people in Bronzeville loved Webber’s work because “it was truthful, it was complex, and it represented the real community.”</p><p>His murals are “not simply pretty pictures,” Pounds says. “They are pictures that are challenging. They are ideas and texts that require reading and reflection. They call on the community to pause and to think and reflect on what they’re reading and seeing and to take that reflection with them the rest of their life.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/6/12/21284726/siddha-webber-bronzeville-murals-king-driveMadison Savedra2020-06-05T11:00:00-05:002020-06-03T14:14:35-05:00Chicago murals: Giant fingers portray city’s skyline, people in Rogers Park artist Megan Sterling’s ‘Cityscape’ mural
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Megan Sterling and her mural “Cityscape” beneath the L tracks at Glenwood Avenue and Columbia Avenue in Rogers Park.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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<div class="LargeTextEnhancement">Megan Sterling, a Rogers Park artist, finds beauty and importance in the physical structures of Chicago and also in the people who make up the city.</div><p></p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-floatRight><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-fa0000" name="module-fa0000"></a>
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<div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics" target="_blank" >Chicago’s murals & mosaics</a></h3><br>Part of a series on public art in the city and suburbs. <b>Know of a mural or mosaic? Tell us where and send a photo to </b><a class="Link" href="mailto:murals@suntimes.com" target="_blank" ><b>murals@suntimes.com</b></a><b>. </b>We might do a story on it.<br></div>
</div><p>Her only mural, titled “Cityscape,” painted in 2016 on the south wall of the viaduct beneath the L tracks at Glenwood and Columbia avenues in Rogers Park, features black-and-white fingers nearly 10 feet tall that rise from the ground like miniature skyscrapers.</p><p>The 16 massive fingers are set against a sky-blue background, arranged to mimic an urban landscape of high-rise buildings.</p><p>Sterling, 38, says the fingers represent the people of the city — “us making up the cityscape and the people being that.” </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>The black-and-white fingers, painted at Glenwood and Columbia avenues by Megan Sterling, are nearly 10 feet tall.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Madison Savedra / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Before painting the mural, Sterling had drawn a similar piece, also called “Cityscape,” based on her own fingers. That one originally went on display at a gallery at Boise State University in Idaho.</p><p>“When I did these giant fingers,” Sterling says, “it was, like, ‘These sort of look like people.’ I really liked the idea of our cityscape being made up of the people. It’s made by the people, and it is the people. And that’s what makes the city and makes the community.”</p><p>Sterling, originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, teaches printmaking and drawing at Columbia College Chicago and is assistant director of the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative printmaking shop on the North Side. She says art has always been part of her life.</p><p>“It’s just my very being,” Sterling says. “I was obsessively drawing and obsessed with art from a very young age.”</p><p>Sterling’s art background is largely in drawing and printmaking — in which multiple copies of an original work are made by pressing an etched and inked piece of wood or other medium onto paper or fabric. She got a bachelor of fine arts degree in printmaking from Boise State and a master of fine arts degree in studio arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-hangLeft>
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<img class="Image" alt="Originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Megan Sterling has lived in Rogers Park since moving to Chicago in 2005." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3c747a0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/720x404+0+248/resize/490x275!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fdu0XTZYj58MUYrBO6_urSkQI6x0%3D%2F0x0%3A720x900%2F720x900%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28360x450%3A361x451%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20015470%2Fmegan_sterling_headshot.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/aeae4a5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/720x404+0+248/resize/980x550!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fdu0XTZYj58MUYrBO6_urSkQI6x0%3D%2F0x0%3A720x900%2F720x900%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28360x450%3A361x451%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20015470%2Fmegan_sterling_headshot.jpg 2x" width="490" height="275"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Megan Sterling has lived in Rogers Park since moving to Chicago in 2005.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>In 2015, Sterling’s boyfriend Matt Bodett was applying to be part of a Rogers Park murals project and encouraged her to apply as well. </p><p>“I was resistant at first because my background is more in printmaking and drawing, and I was, like, ‘I don’t know how to paint,’ ” Sterling says. </p><p>Bodett, a 39-year-old painter and adjunct art professor at Loyola University Chicago, says he thought Sterling’s previous drawing of large fingers would work well on the larger scale of a mural. He told her to apply and said that, if she got chosen, he’d help with the painting. </p><p>Bodett didn’t get picked to paint the mural. Instead, Sterling says she was “shocked and surprised” to find out she was.</p><p>What followed “was kind of a saga,” according to Sterling, who started work on the mural in August 2016. The viaduct where she was painting was in rough condition. So it took some work to scrape and prime the wall before she could paint. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<img class="Image" alt="Megan Sterling working on the mural beneath the L tracks at Glenwood and Columbia avenues in Rogers Park." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c5ea91d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1500x625+0+688/resize/1440x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fq3zOlN7-f7jOMxq1mybWHVdZpOg%3D%2F0x0%3A1500x2000%2F1500x2000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28750x1000%3A751x1001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20015478%2Fsterling_painting.png 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/27521ad/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1500x625+0+688/resize/2880x1200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fq3zOlN7-f7jOMxq1mybWHVdZpOg%3D%2F0x0%3A1500x2000%2F1500x2000%2Ffilters%3Afocal%28750x1000%3A751x1001%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F20015478%2Fsterling_painting.png 2x" width="1440" height="600"
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Megan Sterling working on the mural beneath the L tracks at Glenwood and Columbia avenues in Rogers Park.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Then, graffiti and heavy rains slowed things further.</p><p>“Even though it was under the viaduct, water would just seep down, and the paint would just come off,” Sterling says.</p><p>After months of juggling work on the mural and teaching printmaking and drawing at Northeastern Illinois University, Sterling completed the viaduct artwork in November 2016. </p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullWidth>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Megan Sterling’s mural “Cityscape” beneath the L tracks at Glenwood Avenue and Columbia Avenue in Rogers Park as seen from across the street.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Provided</p></div></div>
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</div><p>She says that, as she was working on it, people would stop and ask why she was painting the fingers in black and white.</p><p>“I don’t feel like it’s my place to be trying to speak for other people, but I also didn’t want to negate the fact that Rogers Park is one of the most diverse neighborhoods,” Sterling says. “I wanted it to be something that anybody could see themselves in without trying to put race into it, trying to find that neutral ground of not speaking for other people but trying to consider that.”</p><p>Just on the other side of the street from “Cityscape” is another mural, titled “Daisy Field,” depicting a garden of flowers, painted by Chicago artist Brenda Barnum.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-fullBleed>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>“Daisy Field” by Brenda Barnum.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Madison Savedra / Sun-Times</p></div></div>
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</div><p>Barnum calls the mural project that she and Sterling took part in “a brilliant way to engage the community and give painters an opportunity to work on a large scale.”</p><p>And she’s a fan of what Sterling produced: “I thought the ‘Cityscape’ mural was lovely and simple in its hands-on statement.”</p><h5>Click on the map below for a selection of Chicago-area murals</h5><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item">
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/6/5/21271943/megan-sterlgiant-fingers-portray-chicagos-skyline-people-in-megan-stirlings-cityscape-muralMadison Savedra