Mural that, and a bag of chips...

Just a quick cross-post from the Columbia Heights listserv, hoping that some folks take advantage of this:

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Good morning residents,

The DC Department of Public Works and Councilmember Jim Graham have launched the second year of the MuralsDC program, created to replace illegal graffiti with artistic works, to help revitalize communities and teach young people the art of aerosol painting. This initiative positively engages DC youth and has been successful in deterring future acts of graffiti vandalism on the property.

District citizens may have their residential (or commercial property) considered as a potential mural site if they are privately owned and highly visible from the street. Residents also must be willing to sign an agreement form authorizing use of this space for the mural (which will be approximately 10 x 20 feet).

For more information, please contact Nancee Lyons at (202) 671-2637 or send an email to receive an application and release form.

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Thanks to Ms.Lyons and the DPW. We've had some good progress with public art on Georgia Avenue recently, and it couldn't hurt to splash a little more weird color around. The photo above is an earlier example on the vacant Cluck-U Chicken building at Georgia Ave. & Columbia Rd.

No, I wouldn't call it "high art," but I'll take a giant chicken in a kilt, enraging elephants and vampire donkeys with the fried limbs of his ancestors over graffiti-tag carnage any day.