Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Best of Baltimore



According to the City Paper, the Best Mural in Baltimore is actually SIX murals, spanning the exterior walls of the Waverly Giant.

And among those walls, one painted by BEST's own Danamarie Hosler, of greenstarstudio.

Don't get us wrong: We love having a grocery store in Waverly. But the Giant has always been a bit too suburban for our tastes. The parking lot is too big and the three street-facing sides of the building are completely unused. Fortunately, the Baltimore Mural Program, part of the city's Office of Promotion and the Arts, commissioned five murals--painted by Gary Mullen, Michael Owen, Nelson Rivas, and Danamarie Hosler--to fill up the walls left blank by the store's owners. The murals by Rivas and Hosler are the best, picturing Waverylites past and present in the leafy setting for which the community was once known. Unlike murals that depict a mish-mash of local places and famous people, the Waverly murals are higher-minded, almost making up for the sterility of the Giant's building.

For more BOBs, visit the City Paper online.

7 comments:

shellydaly said...

Incredible, amazing, insightful, original, intriguing and just right! You're an awesome artist! My neice loves her Knitimal, too!

Yummy & Company said...

dana=amazingly talented!

Anonymous said...

I should drive up here to see this. Dana, you are awesome! Beautiful!

Sweet Pepita said...

yay! Dana!

tigerlillyshop said...

hazzah! you are awesome!

Unknown said...

Danamarie, that is just perfect for the spot. Next time I drive past there, I'm going to allow extra time so I can look. I just love it.

Block Party Press said...

Congrats danamarie! You know I'm a fan!