The Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council has submitted to the Missouri State Council on the Arts a proposal for murals designed and painted by neighborhood residents. The proposed murals would complement the Four Corners Park which will be built this summer at the corner of Kingsbury and Des Peres.
The murals will be a chance to select the images or symbols we want to represent our neighborhood. Children in Hamilton, Hamilton Branch III, St. Roch’s, and Neighborhood schools will participate by doing drawings that tell something about our neighborhood.
Other children and adults may contribute their ideas or images in the form of photographs or sketches by calling Libby Gilk, 863-0682, or by coming to the Des Peres Library on Saturday, May 8, at 3:00 p.m. The movie “The Making of a Mural” will be shown and we’ll talk about our ideas for murals while we work on a large paper mural.
Youth and adults interested in developing the final design and painting the murals this summer will work on a committee with artists Libby Gilk and Ted Smith. The mural committee will submit their design to the Four Corners Committee and the building owners for approval. This same group will then project the design on the walls and form the core group for painting. When painting begins in late June and continues through July, we’ll be looking for neighbors to take up brushes. Then in the Missouri Tradition, each of us will have a chance to be Tom Sawyer with a fence to paint.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1976.
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