Years ago, a couple of local artists scoped out this blank cinder block wall at the corner of Allen and Park, to put up a mural, but at the time the storefront was vacant and with no permission from the owner of the building, the project never happened.
Yesterday, as a precursor to the echo Art Fair event, artist Max Collins with the help of ReImagine’s Cortney Morrison-Taylor, adhered a temporary wheatpaste billboard to the formerly drab wall, and in the process gave the corner an eye-catching art instillation.
Max told me that although the art piece is temporary, he would like to work with The Allentown Association to get permission to put up a more permanent work, with the help of some other artists in the neighborhood (similar to the work done on the 500-block of Main Street (see here).
The temporary mural promotes echo’s submission period, which ends on May 17.