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May 10, 2018

“THE MONARCH”

by Vesna

Originally from Skopje, Macedonia, Vesna now lives in St. Louis and says she is inspired by the “differences in cultures, places, people, and music.” She says “light, colors, shapes, brushstrokes, composition, visual balance, contrast, and beauty” are all part of her personal language—her means of expressing her deepest feelings. Influenced by the iconography, frescoes, and mosaics of centuries-old Macedonian monasteries and churches it was only fitting then that the St. Louis community of Carondelet turned to Vesna to create this mural on the side of its first convent established in 1836: The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. The 2014 mural on S. Broadway at Steins St was the the 6th mural completed in Carondelet’s Murals on Broadway project. @vesna_delevska/

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October 11, 2017

“CLARK TERRY”

by Ray Harvey

St. Louis Public Radio reports that at 10-years-old Clark Terry made his first trumpet out of junkyard remnants. The neighbors got so sick of hearing it they chipped in and came up with money for a pawn shop horn, and from there Terry said he was never again without a trumpet. By age 30 he had been a soloist with both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and for seven decades he is said to have “performed with the audacity of a riverboat gambler.” In 2015 Clark Terry passed away at age 94, and the following year St. Louis’s Carondelet Community Association commissioned New Haven, Missouri illustrator, fine artist, and muralist Ray Harvey to paint the seventh in their Murals on Broadway series—on S. Broadway near Schirmer St. In addition to 29 years painting, Harvey is one of the few panoramic photographers remaining relying on a 1940’s Panon Widelux swinglens camera.  

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September 17, 2017

“EYES ON THE FUTURE”

by Peat Wollaeger

“The the EYEZ are the window to your SOUL,” says Peat Wollaeger, aka EYEZ, encouraging viewers of his work to wake up, and open theirs. When Wollaeger tired of climbing the ladder of Chicago advertising he and his family moved back home to St. Louis and he turned his attention to making a difference with his stencils and spray enamels. In 2012, for the third mural to be installed in the Carondelet neighborhood’s Murals on Broadway project, he painted the eyes of his then 9-year-old son expressing the idea of opening eyes to the future. He also says he intentionally chose this 100’ x 30’ corrugated steel building at 6300 Broadway so he could experiment with lenticular-style animation “like those toys you would get out of old Cracker Jack boxes that would animate when you moved them back and forth, but much larger.” Drive by in person and see if the eyes blink for you.  @eyez