Urban Scenes - West Hartford, CT
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N 41° 45.309 W 072° 45.860
18T E 685866 N 4625006
A painted bus shelter on has brightly colored urban scenes. It is locate at the SW corner of Framingham Ave. and Mountain Road in West Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WM16VBM
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2022
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Ten bus shelters in West Hartford have been painted with murals as part of the West Hartford Art League public art project that was funded by the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation. A group that call themselves Marvelous Mark Makers painted the this bus with a rightly colored mural of urban views in the style of Paul Klee's "Castle and Sun".
According the the West Hartford Art League website: (
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"The Marvelous Mark Makers is a group of artists who met while taking Dianne Zweig's class 'Making your Mark in Contemporary Abstract Art and Collage' at the West Hartford Art League. Some members been making, selling, showing, and teaching art for years, while others have just begun their art journeys. Over the past few years they have gone from classmates, to friends, to collaborators on this project. Their cityscape bus shelter design evolved from a class assignment to create a piece based on Paul Klee's Castle and Sun.
Artists in the group include: Michelle Peterson, Bloomfield; Shari Cassutt, Simsbury; Joanna Eickenhorst, West Hartford; Lynn Katz, Avon; Rabbi Debra Cantor, Bloomfield; Heather Satlof, Avon; Nicole Leavens, Avon; Kathleen McKay, West Hartford; Heston Clapp, Southbury; Dianne Zweig, Avon; Nada Zecevic, Meriden; Susan Spaniol, Hartford; and Harriet Schneider, West Hartford."
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