I’m with you. We don’t need murals just to have murals. If a very talented artist has a vision for a mural downtown there should be funding and an avenue to provide the space, but we should not be slapping fingerpaint all over downtown just to say we have more murals.
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Who’s to say that’s not what’s happening here?
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Guess it depends on the eye of the beholder, but specifically that union station piece seems like a mural just to mural…
I generally like the murals. Some of them I like a lot. Some of them I only think are okay. I can’t think of any that I think detract from the environment.
Unpopular opinion. I know the at&t building is ugly, but the new mural there is a bit of a nothing-burger. Geometric shapes overtop of a geometric surface was an interesting choice - a flowing organic mural would have hid the building better imo
Surprised no one had posted this yet. If I’m reading this correct the new mural has a ‘name’ called Green City, USA?
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We’re certainly all entitled to our opinions about art (such a subjective topic), but I don’t see how a blank cement wall is better than artwork.
I say the more professionally commissioned murals the merrier. I don’t have to like all of them, but they certainly make our city much more visually interesting (especially since we’re not getting creative building designs). I’ve always enjoyed mural spotting in other cities I’ve traveled to. But of course, to each their own.
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Speaking of public murals, I’m not sure how frequent people visit Nextdoor, but this was one of the better posts.
A guy jogging interrupts someone painting a city commissioned mural, instructing him to call the police on himself for graffiti. When he refuses the jogger acts as if the painter self incriminated himself.
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I saw Hayes Permar tweet about this, this guy made my blood boil.
So self-important, and wait until you find out what the mural was also supposed to represent.
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I saw this on Nextdoor. I think I might’ve called the police to complain that I was being harassed by a crazy person if I was the mural painter. So weird.
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Greensboro kills it when it comes to murals
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Nice! Yeah that’s kind of the point for me … if there’s a mural, I want people to say “damn!”…quality over quantity
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The new mural on Carrolls Kitchen is finished.
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I’ve been thinking if I become slightly rich, that I’d love to leave my mark on downtown by donating a mural to the city someday.
It also got me thinking how cool it would be if we crowd funded a mural with our group to help pay for a DTRals community mural. Like right now I’d personally chip in $100-$200 or so to hire an artist.
Out of curiosity would anyone have any interest in a project like this? We could potentially put our own stamp on the city we love, which I think would be so freaking cool.
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So long as it has nothing to do with Raleigh. Kind of getting bored of all the art murals that feature the Big 3 buildings again and again and again… like can we just get some cool art??? At least that giant tree was something different.
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I agree. Would love to see some more creativity brought to the city.
I have a business built around photo experiences. I’d love to bring a piece of art here that’s street level so people can interact and take photos with.
I’m open to lots of ideas tho.
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There is better art on the walls at my daughter’s daycare. This is embarrassing.
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I will say that it looks better up than the drawing. The sentiment is nice, the art work is . . . nice. Its not offensive.
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See this is my problem with public art in Raleigh… I would love some “offensive” art like big cities such as LA, NY, and SF would have splattered around 
The sentiment is corny as hell and its awful.