Buffalo’s garden-inspired murals
This article was originally posted on the blog ArtofGardening.org by Jim Charlier
Murals have been popping up all over Buffalo – like good weeds! Many are nature- or garden-inspired. Other area murals do have flowers or plants in them, but these feature them prominently.
You can stand in front of a mural of butterfly wings, boosting your pollinator cred on Elmwood near Hodge.
Another Westside mural was, in part, created by visitors to Garden Walk Buffalo. They were invited to placed found flowers and leaves from Garden Walk gardens on photo sensitive paper. Artist Hillary Waters Fayle then made a quilt-like pattern of those prints in a large-scale mural (Dewitt Street). The visitors got to keep their photo print – so dozens of Garden Walk visitors own pieces of this mural.
There’s even a koi pond mural you can walk on, by Mark Madden, on a hellstrip – between sidewalk and street (Summer Street at Elmwood Avenue).
The first floral mural, below, by Cassandra Ott, is on Elmwood Avenue was created in honor of Garden Walk Buffalo and the Elmwood Village Association’s 25h anniversaries.
Sources to see more of Buffalo’s murals are linked below. There does not seem to be one single source that has all murals listed. Part of that is the speed at which the murals are being created. It’s hard to keep up!
