Graffiti artists portray Vancouver history and war heroes, Five Victoria Cross recipients will appear on wall
A new mural replacing the graffiti covered in blue by the city shortly before the Olympics will be complete in two weeks, its creators say.
Vince Dumoulin, one of 15 artists who painted the previous Beatty Street graffiti mural on a concrete wall that stretches between Dunsmuir and Georgia streets, said his concept will reflect Vancouver’s past, present and future.
“This is a social studies textbook on a wall all about Vancouver,” he said.
The past was emerging Tuesday afternoon with depictions of Captain George Vancouver, Gassy Jack and Squamish Chief Joe Capilano, among others, painted overtop the blue that had been applied over the original graffiti mural a few days before Christmas. He and Milan Basic, the artist who headed the creation of the original mural painted during a block party for the Steve Nash Foundation for kids in 2007, will also paint representations of the present and future.
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