Laurie B Blayney Art

Your Story

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GIVE YOUR INPUT ON THE MURAL PROJECT

Which animals, birds, fishes, amphibians, bugs and critters should be a part of the waterfront mural?

The gate openings will be painted to look like ornamental metal as a nod to the metalworking industries of the past - any favorite icons you would like to see included as ironwork?

Do you have a personal story to share about the Ohio or the area ? Theme: LOST COMMUNITIES OF LOUISVILLE or OHIO RIVER STORIES. Shippingport? Fishing on the Ohio? Flood stories? Or the businesses in the area? Foundries? Walnut Street? What is your story?

Floodwall Mural Pilot Project
Waterfront Park at 10th and Rowan

This mural is sponsored by a cooperative group consisting of Louisville Metro's COPA (Commission On Public Art), The Waterfront Development Corporation, and Metropolitan Sewer District.

The entrance will show Shippingport Island. The gateways will be painted to give the illusion of ornamental iron.

The other side of the wall shows a view from the river with Corn Island.

The West facing wall is the sunset over the bend in the river

Information Walls

The East facing walls show the sunrise.

How we are bringing extea experiences and history to the project:

THE MURAL PAINTING
The majority of the mural is a modern landscape painting depicting the geography of the park - as if there were no buildings or people. The Ohio River runs through all scenes, symbolic of the tie that unites all Louisvillians.

QR codes around the mural link to sites that give history on lost communities from the area:

Native American Sites
Corn Island
Shippingport Island
Old Walnut Street Business District
with nods to other special places.

in addition

Under the gate is below the surface: under the river and archaeological layers
AR is added to enhance the experience.
A relief map installed on site for vision impaired park goers.
Crank style audio box installed with oral histories placed around the mural area

THE 2 INFORMATION WALLS

The icons of flora and fauna from the mural are painted on the left wall as a seek and find for park visitors
On the right wall are the history of flooding, the 1937 flood and the building of flood wall system.
QR codes link to sites focused on the history

Frankfort Ave Mural

This project, a reinterpretation in paint of a digital mixed media piece from my series of work: #KentuckyTheBeautiful.
The opportunity to create at this scale was a dream. The pandemic changed my routine, so I capitalized on the large stretch of time needed to hand paint a 500 square foot mural.
No stencil, no projection, no spray. The conditions called for hand drawing and painting.

Modern Family Dentistry Building 3210 Frankfort Ave

Bardstown Road Mural

Painted in a similar manner, this was started at the end of pandemic shut down. Many of us felt timid to reemerge.This street scene denotes a feeling of being able to gather without worry, something we all deserve to experience.

Private Residence Murals

Match an existing piece to fill the entire wall.