Austin

This mural going up on the new Pleasant Valley Longhorn Dam underpass is weak, equality & inclusion theatre. Capital Delivery Services is bringing forward nothing that actually represents the neighborhood because they aren't giving the community a real voice in this process — instead, they've brought in a Houston-based artist to build a collage of vague community mantras & imagery with a tile-by-the-numbers assignment for local volunteers to build it.

Huge missed opportunity to bring in local artists to create a collective mural based on their lived-experiences in this place. Or better yet, yield the tunnel space to the neighbors entirely as a community-managed graffiti space.

This mural going up on the new Pleasant Valley Longhorn Dam underpass is weak, equality & inclusion theatre. Capital Delivery Services is bringing forward nothing that actually represents the neighborhood because they aren't giving the community a real voice in this process — instead, they've brought in a Houston-based artist to build a collage of vague community mantras & imagery with a tile-by-the-numbers assignment for local volunteers to build it.

Huge missed opportunity to bring in local artists to create a collective mural based on their lived-experiences in this place. Or better yet, yield the tunnel space to the neighbors entirely as a community-managed graffiti space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdeOo4kMcPo

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Graffiti taggers will be all over this piece within days of completion.

Shame they did not get local artists to rock it. Hopefully local artists will rock it.