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I magine the whole side of the Warner Theater with color on it,” says Vincent Kitch, Morgantown’s director of arts and cultural development. The scaffolding goes up. The wall is patched, pressure washed, primed, painted a solid color. The artists work until the sun goes down and the street lights cast long shadows onto the building. The next morning, there’s a faint outline, and the next, a discernible shape. Before long, there’s color, and over the next few weeks, the whole wall comes to life with shapes and patterns. People stop to take photos. They tag the mural on Instagram, tell their friends. The once blighted space is bringing the community together. In the past few years, there’s been a groundswell of grassroots efforts to get murals off the ground in Morgantown, and now, those efforts show no signs of stopping. The City has identified arts and culture as one of its strategic goals. How do you bring arts and culture to a community? By painting the town.
wri tten by jordan carter
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