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WHEREAS, Kyle Holbrook, director, artist, and founder of KH Designs is responsible for over 100 mural throughout Western Pennsylvania. The master muralist once again takes the walls of Pittsburgh this summer, this time with 10 legendary artists and over 70 of the city's brightest youth artists, to produce a communities-enhancing public arts project of unprecedented size and grandeur; and
WHEREAS, Painting for the National City Martin Luther King East Busway Community Mural Project began June 18. Holbrook and a league of extraordinary artist start the first of over a dozen walls to be painted citywide, and when finished, nine communities including the East Liberty, Homewood , Shadyside and the Hill District will enjoy fascinating wall animation along the East Busway; and
WHEREAS, this is the largest community mural project since Mr. Holbrook's last project, the Pittsburgh All-Star Communities mural, which coincided with the Major League Baseball All-Star game at PNC Park last summer and ended one of the largest murals in the world; and
WHEREAS, Similar to the All-Star mural project, the National City Martin Luther King East Busway Mural Project employed the genius and creativity of multiple artists for a truly mosaic presentation. Among the supervising and managing staff on the project is the much-accomplished artists Jorge Meyers, George Gist, Chris Savido, Ashley Summey, Colleen Black, Bob Qualters and Michelle Gregio; and
WHEREAS, most importantly, the project will be the 70 teen and pre-teen artists of Pittsburgh who has seen this project to fruition. Following Mr. Holbrook's legacy in community-mural production, each mural will be a vivid, visual exploration of the histories of each of the nine neighborhoods hosting the wall art; and
WHEREAS, the images in each mural are based on local and historical people and events making the murals educational as well as bright spots for each community.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Co...
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