Sharing ideas about what might be represented in future murals, designing and painting are great ways to bring a community together. If you find a bare wall in your neighborhood that seems like the perfect canvas for a new mural, share with us.
Escape from Prohibition
📍: Swamp Rabbit Brewery (26 S Main St, Travelers Rest)
⭐: Looks like a jumping swamp rabbit breaking through the gray brick but it’s all a visual trick called trompe-l’œil (French for “deceive the eye”).
🎨: Brigitte Selby (it was her first mural)
Locomotive at the Whistlestop
📍: Whistlestop at the American Cafe (109 S Main St Travelers Rest)
⭐:This 3D mural uses the wood fired oven to illustrate the pilot of the locomotive with the chimney of the oven as the smokestack, and there’s a headlamp to make it look even more realistic.
🎨: Brigitte Selby
Falls Street Artwork
📍: 307 Falls St. near Webster Street (visible from Falls Street)
⭐: Warped images of four mills that have been repurposed or are slated for renovation flowing through the Reedy River falls. The four mills are: The Lofts at the Mills Mill, the Lofts of Greenville in The former Monahagen Mill, the Woodside Mill, and Wyche Pavilion.
Commissioned by the Year of Altruism as a memorial to the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
🎨: Gaia (aka Andrew Pisacane) – one of Forbe’s “30 Under 30 Art & Style” for 2015.
Sunday in the Park a la Reedy River
📍: Rite Aid at the corner of Main and Stone (1 E Stone Ave)
⭐: A Greenville take on George Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte.”
🎨: Eric Benjamin, an art teacher at Stone Academy of Communications Arts and Stone Academy students
Be the Change You Want to See in the Neighborhood!
📍: 214 W. Stone Ave.
⭐: Depicts an aquarium with vegetation, fish and a boy peering at it painted using interferon paint that changes colors as people walk by.
🎨: Stone Academy Students under the direction of artist Calista Bockenstette
Live Big
📍: 217 E. Stone Ave
🎨: Jean Wilson Freeman is the directing artist, and painted by the students of Stone Academy.
Stone Mural Project 4 // photo by: Will Crooks
📍: Hammack Law Firm, 223 W. Stone Ave.
⭐: The mural depicts the lifecycle of the South Carolina state butterfly: the eastern tiger swallowtail.
🎨: Sunny Mullarkey McGowan and Stone Academy students
Buncombe St. Scout Hut
📍: Buncombe Street United Methodist Church facing College Street
🎨: Rick Forest
In progress mural at Embassy Suites
📍: On the roof of the Embassy Suites Riverplace Downtown
🎨: August Vernon
Mac’s Speed Shop
📍: 830 S Main St
🎨: Unknown
Hampton Station
📍: 1320 Hampton Ave Ext
🎨: Blank Canvas Mural Co.
Falls Park
📍: 102 West North Street
🎨: Rick Forest
Textile Center of the World
📍: Innovate Building (148 River St)
🎨: Blank Canvas Mural Company
Travelers Rest Makers Company
📍: 3 S Main St, Travelers Rest
🎨: Blank Canvas Mural Company artist Adam Schimmer
Southern Sounds
📍: Horizon Records parking lot (2 W Stone Ave)
⭐: Highlights local musicians who’ve impacted the Greenville community in unique ways. Like Josh White, the first black man to sell a million records with his song “One Meatball.” And, Russ Morin, a beloved musician, teacher, and ukelele craftsman (also called a luthier). Morin passed away from lung cancer in 2014.
🎨: Furman Art students under the direction of Ross McClain and artist Charles Tyre.
Is there a mural you’ve seen around that we didn’t include? Let us know – take a picture and tag us using #GVLtoday and maaaaybe we’ll feature your photo as a POD. 😉
Happy Monday, Greenville.
– Jordan
