About the Project
The Downtown Overland Park Mural Project, funded through the Kansas Department of Commerce/Creative Arts Industries Council, is the culmination of 4+ years of working with the City of Overland Park and the City Master Art Plan.
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The Mural Designs
The proposed mural by JT Daniels is located behind 10,000 Villages store. They are a fair trade business and sell fair trade crafts from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. From JT, “My design does showcase women from varied cultures, a few of which are represented heavily within the store that fosters fair trade items from these countries, where the money provides for their families & etc.”
Partial funding for this mural is provided by the children of Jeanne Stephens Lee Blackmar in memory of her outstanding service to women.
Facing the clocktower on the side of the Penzey’s Spice business, this mural represents the work of 4 artists - Isaac Tapia, Aaron Sutton, Emily Alvarez, and Rodrigo Alvarez. The images abstractly symbolize a multiracial community, its cooperation, creativity, relationship to the earth, hopes and dreams.
The mural at the corner of 80th and Conser is designed by Donald “Scribe” Ross and depicts a Meadowlark, the state bird of Kansas.
The proposed mural on the side of InterUrban ArtHouse at the corner of 80th/Conser depicts a colorful Bluegill fish which is one of the most common fish in the state of Kansas!