A mural celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Annapolis charter?s signing will now be displayed on the outside of a state building.
Leaders of ArtWalk, a community public art project, met with state lawmakers this week and decided to have the mural displayed on the Attman Glazer Building, which houses the tax assessor?s office, at the corner of Clay and Calvert streets in Annapolis.
“It?s significant to the Clay Street community, and at the corner, it gets a lot of pedestrian and car traffic and can be seen from West Street, which is very significant in terms of visibility,” said ArtWalk co-director and curator Sally Wern Comport.
County Executive John R. Leopold would not permit the art group to hang the mural on the countygovernment building on Calvert Street. The group then turned to the Anne Arundel school system, which offered it a chance to hang the artwork on a public school building.
Even though the mural will not hang on a school building, Comport said an important relationship was formed, and the two groups will work with one another on future projects.
The 15-foot-wide and 20-foot-high mural is expected to be hung by the end of February and will be lit up at night, Comport said.
The mural was created by artist George Belt and local school children.
