Murals double as fundraisers
January 1, 2020
A unique public art project is raising funds and drawing visitors to West Point, MS. Four separate murals have been painted based on the work of Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, whose paintings of dogs in human situations, were popular in the early 1900s. The first of the four murals re-imagines the iconic Dogs Playing Poker. It…To read more — login/subscribe
Visitors pose for photos along the path of the floodwall murals. In the annals of cultural assets, a quilting museum and a public mural project might sound like an unremarkable pair of advantages. But Paducah, KY (est. pop. 24,879), has combined those two resources with local pride and a relentless place-building campaign to turn itself…