PHOTO GALLERY: Local artists called on to paint Columbia underpasses
The Resident Arts organized a mural painting on Saturday along the MKT trail at the Elm Street underpass. The event was hosted by coordinators and teen artist trainees from Resident Arts and the Career Awareness Related Experience program, a program aimed at developing skills needed to enter the workforce. Lisa Simms, the leader of this project, also designed the pattern for this wall. Resident Arts puts an outline of the chosen pattern on the wall before painters are invited, so that participants can paint on the wall directly and fill in the pattern.
Photography by Zhihan Huang
Bree Gosselink, left, and Erin East add details
Bree Gosselink, left, and Erin East add details to the tunnel mural on Saturday. The painting started at 9 a.m. with the outline already added to the wall. Lisa Simms is the leader of the project and the designer of the new mural.
Columbia Resident Arts organized a painting session
Columbia Resident Arts organized a painting session to add to the mural along the MKT trail at Elm Street on Saturday. The whole project of mural painting includes eight murals overall. This tunnel by Flat Branch Park is the third. Painters were given paint and brushes to fill in the already added outline.
Bree Gosselink paints windows and trees
Bree Gosselink paints windows and trees onto the mural on Saturday near Flat Branch Park. Gosselink began teaching herself to paint through videos last year and volunteered to help today.
