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1 Artist Mike McDevitt designed the Friends of Deckers Creek Mural at mile marker zero on the Deckers Creek Trail in 2016. The 12-by-86-foot mural took more than 70 volunteers two days to complete. It depicts Deckers Creek’s flora and fauna and the effects of acid mine drainage and was funded by Dominion Foundation.
5 Grafton native Amber “Turk” Rogers was a volunteer and internship coordinator for the Taylor County Arts Council, based out of Gallery 62 West in Grafton. In 2016, she painted Violet , a 50-foot-high mural on the side of the Gallery 62 West, with funding from the Arts Council through Turn This Town Around and the Benedum Foundation. 6 Italian heritage and local history animate an Italian Independent Social Club mural in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Self-taught muralist Jeremy Raymer spray painted the 4,000-square-foot piece in 2019. The Fayette County Cultural Trust funded the mural and chose the location to draw people over the West Crawford Avenue bridge. 7 You’ve likely seen Jesse Corlis’ murals before; he’s painted the White Elephant Saloon murals at each of Pies & Pints’ 13 locations. Today, he’s working on a 28-foot-tall, 125-foot-wide mural representing different eras in glassmaking. You can find it in Weston on the north-facing wall of The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia. 8 Artist Mark Stutzman designed the eye-popping 2016 Oakland, Maryland, mural Our Local Heroes. Stutzman’s design was digitized and printed on panels that were installed on the Oakland Town Hall. The 16-by-35-foot mural was partially funded by the Garrett County Arts Council, Community Legacy funds, and the Town of Oakland.
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The state bird stands out against the iconic green storefront of the Mountain People’s Co-Op. Malissa Goff
Baker and Keith Strother painted Debbie , named after the red bird in The Good Dinosaur , in 2019. The project was coordinated by Arts Monongahela and funded through a grant from Your Community Foundation.
In the summer of 2015, a group of WVU students painted the mural beneath the Beechurst PRT Station. The
organization WVU Art Movement, led by Cecily Flight and Gerardo Valera, funded the project until Valera was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Student Government Association’s “Catalyst of Campus Change.”
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Old Town Mural spans one side of the parking lot at Fayette and Chestnut streets. It was painted in the late 1970s by a
group of local teachers with funding from Main Street Morgantown. The mural depicts downtown Morgantown and includes a scene of retail shops, a cafe, and the Metropolitan Theatre.
In November 2020, Mills Group will unveil a mural on the side of its offices at 88 High Street depicting a collage of buildings the company has designed or worked on around the state. Each building in the mural will be laser-cut separately, and spacers behind the custom panels will give the
entire image a sense of depth and relief.
14 MORGANTOWN • OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020
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