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“I SLOWLY MELT INTO ETERNITY”

by Egle Zvirblyte

Originally from Lithuania Egle Zvirblyte has worked in set design and later focused on illustration. After living in Melbourne, Tokyo, Bali, and Barcelona Zvirblyte is now based in London where she produces work for advertising, publishing, and product and event design, as well as painting walls and exhibiting her artwork globally. Zvirblyte describes her work as bright, punchy, and irreverent and @Wdwlls describes the eccentric figures of this work for @LifeIsBeautiful in Las Vegas as “a narrative about the creation process, vulnerability, desire, and female empowerment.” Painted in September, 2018 the wall is at City Center Motel on N 7th at Fremont St. @luckybananapress/

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Part 5 of my Twin Cities murals series 🖤

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Part 3 of my Twin Cities murals series 🖤

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May 1, 2017

“SWING AROUND ROSIE”

Natalie Lanese

Rosemary Clooney first started recording in 1946 and within a few years was a regular performer on radio and television. When Cincinnati non-profit ArtWorks partnered with the Cincinnati Enquirer asking its readers who should be the first female legend to be honored in its Cincinnati Legends mural series Clooney beat out the likes of Louise Beavers, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Dorothy Kamenshek, and Mamie Smith for the honor, and it may well be her 1954 performance opposite Bing Crosby in White Christmas that made the difference. For this 2016 work at Liberty and Pleasant Streets in Cincinnati Lanese immortalizes a black velvet gowned Clooney singing “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me” for Bing late in the film. Natalie Lanese who now lives in Toledo, Ohio, is known for her experimentation with collage and painted elements, but as reflected in this work, she says her recent work abandons collage and focuses on repeated hard-edged patterns. @nlanese @artworkscincy

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September 6, 2018

“THE HANDS THAT BUILT THE CITY”

by Jenny Roesel Ustick and ArtWorks

Born in Germany in 1886, artist and graphic designer Winold Reiss immigrated to the US in 1913. With rail traffic through Cincinnati booming even while operating out of five different stations, plans were made to construct a union station and 20 years after his arrival on American soil Reiss landed his most ambitious commission, creating a pair of stunning 22’ x 110’ murals depicting the history of Cincinnati for its new Art Deco terminal. In 2013 Jenny Roesel Ustick designed and led an ArtWorks team of teaching assistants and youth apprentices, adapting the hands featured in Reiss’s mosaic for this mural on Elm St at the city’s Duke Energy Convention Center. Painted to mimic the look of tile Roesel added the hands of two convention center employees and one ArtWorks apprentice as a “nod to Cincinnati’s vibrant future.” @j_r_ustick @artworkscincy @cincydecc

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June 13, 2018

“THE UNITY WALL”

by Lyle Kissack

Born in Brooklyn, Lyle Kissack has been a long-time Baltimore resident since completing his MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in the late ’80s. Baltimore has a long history of mural painting, going back to New Deal projects created there during the Depression, and in 2005 the Office of Promotion and the Arts planned eight mural installations. This one at Guilford Ave and E 20th St was created by Kissack with assistance from Living Classrooms’ Crossroads School students and while the composition has been welcomed by the community Kissack acknowledges that a mural can only be one step in transforming a community. One 13-year-old told the Baltimore Sun “The mural makes it look better, but it’s not going to clean the streets”—whatever the role of the mural, thankfully other steps have clearly been taken in the intervening years. @promoandarts