Cool art downtown
Posted on July 18, 2008 by LuAnn Farrar
What is the story behind the mural on the side of the building on E. Short St. between DeWeese and Esplanade?
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The Herald-Leader wrote about the newly created mural on Saturday, June 18, 2005. The artist is Britt Spencer, who won a contest sponsored by Thomas & King and the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council. Spencer, then 21, is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Several of his friends and family were at the 2005 unveiling, including Georgia Henkel, his sixth-grade art history teacher while he was at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington. As of December 2007, Spencer is a children’s book illustrator in Los Angeles.
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My mother was a public school librarian. I earned a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Kentucky. The Herald-Leader hired me as a news assistant 25 years ago; soon after, I moved to the news research department, where I’ve been ever since. We used to clip newspapers. Now, almost all of our research is online. We've come a long way.
But, what does the mural mean?