Local Culture, Aurora IL
In the last week there have been some busy bees in downtown Aurora and they weren’t working on the highly anticipated Harry Potter Festival (sold out by the way). Rebekah Axtel, Joshua Schultz, Tim Frederick, Sam Melton, David Lewis, and others have...
Draw on the Wall, a community art project kicked off by Aurora Mural Project (AMP), welcomed locals to create art on West Downer Place in mid-March. More than 50 came out to the wall to draw with permanent markers and chalk. Art...
By Charlie Zine For years I rode my bike on the Fox River Trail, past an old, uncared-for building. It was an eyesore and it made me angry. I wanted to report the building to the city and have the owner clean...
Charlie Zine and others are transforming a wall in Aurora. A once sad, old building is being given new life with a beautification project dubbed “Transcendence: A Community Mural.” First, here’s the Facebook invite to help out. Now read about the efforts...
I moved back to Aurora nine years ago. I wanted a mural on a wall near downtown Aurora for just as long. It’s a wall that I pass nearly every day; often several times in one day. It’s a wall that started off...
