In The Next Neighborhood Up – Uptown Art Week

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Chicago is a city of murals and after I snapped a picture of one of my favorites downtown, I began realizing that there aren’t any murals in my immediate neighborhood but that there are lots in the next neighborhood to the north. And this week during Uptown Art Week over 40 more will be created. Yesterday we hopped on the bus to see some of them. After a quick walk through the Uptown Art Fair at the future Chicago Market food co-op we decided to check out the murals that were being painted on the Red Line columns. Turns out that it was the base of the columns that artists were invited to paint.

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I first read about the column painting on a @shawnimals post and it looks like he got the most challenging spot!

A Block Chicago article I found mentioned that one column would be painted by the “prolific and controversial Bay artist fnnch” so we made sure we found that one.

We got to watch a few artists at work.

This one stopped a lit of people in their tracks. Luckily we didn’t get caught by Wily Coyote.

In the alley behind the station we found murals of many sizes.

The wall had lots of boards this size some of which were painted and some which hadn’t been yet. This one is by Molly Z and across the alley was a very large mural also by Molly Z.

Another amazing one was “If You Only Knew” by Steven Teller.

There were just so many!

We’ll have to make a return visit. I really want to see how this one turns out.