Mural Restoration - Nolan St. Bridge
Working in partnership with the City of San Antonio, we recently restored two murals on the Nolan St. Bridge underpass.
Painted in 2013, Vortex was originally a collaboration between San Anto Cultural Arts and Blue Star Contemporary. Lead artist Alex Rubio designed this mural to be accessible at a glance to people driving through the Nolan Street Underpass. Three youth artists worked in the Mosaic of Youth Artists in Community (MOSAIC) Studio at Blue Star Contemporary to draw, paint, and assemble the mural from 160 sheets of polytab material.
Neon Drive was originally painted by Canary Islands-based artist Iker Muro in 2016. This public art project was commissioned by Public Art San Antonio and was supported in part by the 2012-2017 Bond Program and the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant Project with collaborative partner Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival hosting the unveiling.
The lead artists for the restoration were San Antonio artists Crystal Tamez and Cassidy Fritts. The two murals had begun to fade and chip and they were recently tagged. Working with the City of San Antonio, we were able to bring these two murals back to their original splendor. The murals were also covered with a graffiti resistant coating to help keep them safe. This large-scale project took approximately 4 weeks to complete.
Painted in 2013, Vortex was originally a collaboration between San Anto Cultural Arts and Blue Star Contemporary. Lead artist Alex Rubio designed this mural to be accessible at a glance to people driving through the Nolan Street Underpass. Three youth artists worked in the Mosaic of Youth Artists in Community (MOSAIC) Studio at Blue Star Contemporary to draw, paint, and assemble the mural from 160 sheets of polytab material.
Neon Drive was originally painted by Canary Islands-based artist Iker Muro in 2016. This public art project was commissioned by Public Art San Antonio and was supported in part by the 2012-2017 Bond Program and the National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant Project with collaborative partner Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival hosting the unveiling.
The lead artists for the restoration were San Antonio artists Crystal Tamez and Cassidy Fritts. The two murals had begun to fade and chip and they were recently tagged. Working with the City of San Antonio, we were able to bring these two murals back to their original splendor. The murals were also covered with a graffiti resistant coating to help keep them safe. This large-scale project took approximately 4 weeks to complete.
