It’s spring, the perfect time to enjoy Glen Canyon and take advantage of a unique opportunity: An invitation to lend a hand painting the Elk Street Mural along the wall by the entry to the canyon. The fabulous design, by well-known artist, Sirron Norris, is based on extensive community input and captures the beauty and […]
Elk Street Mural
What Glen Park eyesore is more-or-less 200 feet long and 42 inches high?
Photo: Suzanne Ginsburg (All other photos and images courtesy of Sirron Norris.) If you guessed that the “eyesore” is the very low, extremely unattractive and blotchy cement wall bordering the ball field on Elk Street—the one with the very tall chain link fence hovering above it—you are correct. And it is on that quite low […]
More art for Glen Park!
Are you ready for some more neighborhood beautification? We hope so! There’s a new Glen Park resident-led effort to transform the dreary Elk Street retaining wall of the Glen Canyon ball field into a beautiful mural. The idea came from long-time GP resident Suzanne Ginsburg who contacted Renee Berger, the project leader of Burnside Mural+, […]