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What does the View At The Park apartment building have in common with Bartlett House? What about with Andrew White Guitars and the Morgantown Dental Group? Black Bear Burritos and the I.O.O.F. Lodge on High Street? You get the picture—or lack thereof. All of these buildings have big blank walls and were identified by Mills Group as potential locations for murals. Any of them has the potential to become as eye-catching as 123 Pleasant Street, painted with a rainbow mural. “Public art changes a person's perception of a space,” says visual artist Brian Pickens. “It goes from being run-of-the-mill to some- thing that’s magical, inspiring, or thought-provoking.” Where to put them? Location matters. Put public art where it's least expected, Jillian Kelly, founder of Morgantown Art Party, suggests. She loves the wrapped trash receptacles downtown and the colorful crosswalks in Greenmont. “It doesn’t have to be the side of the Warner Theatre,” says City Arts and Cultural Development Director Vincent Kitch of that huge, very visible wall at High and Pleasant. “It could be a little mural on a back alley entrance.” One of our favorites is Eve Faulkes’ split-complementary mural on the Wall Street side of Health Right. It features four local leaders—John W. Garlow, Yasmeen Mustafa, Sara Little, and Charlene Marshall—and their contributions to the community. “I’d love to see the length of Wall Street done artistically so it’s a pathway from the Spruce Street parking garage to High Street,” says Kitch. Murals WE NEED
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1 15 Court Street, beside the Morgantown–Westover bridge 2 Independent Order of Odd Fellows building at the corner of High and Walnut streets 3 130–132 Pleasant Street, home to Black Bear Burritos 4 140–142 High Street, home to Iron Horse Tavern and Morgantown Dental Group 5 1110 University Avenue, home to Bartlett House emergency shelter 6 198 Foundry Street, home to Andrew White Guitars.
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