From the Editor s Desk: A colorful addition to the downtown
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
After numerous months of work, the scaffolding is coming down and the latest mural celebrating Keyser is finally finished.
Located on the side of the Solar Mountain Records building on Armstrong Street, this latest effort of the Highland Arts Public Arts Committee features a train rolling into the foreground, chugging past what I assume is the old railroad machine shop. Watching the train go by is a young boy and his dog.
The mural serves as a welcome to those coming into Keyser by way of Memorial Bridge, just as the first murals to be created by the HAU program and affixed to the Brooks Park amphitheater welcome those coming into Keyser from the south.
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
KEYSER - Students at the Mineral County Technical Center have traditionally studied subjects like carpentry, mechanics, agriculture and nursing - all of which require much hands-on practice.
Starting this year, some of the students will be gaining hands-on experience in art, thanks to a cooperative program between the Tech Center, Highland Arts Unlimited, and the art teachers at Keyser and Frankfort high schools.
Highland Arts, which sponsors the mural program that has resulted in artwork being placed on the amphitheater in Brooks Park and the front of the Law Building, and the one currently being painted on the side of Solar Mountain Records, has expanded that program to include several murals to be placed on the outside walls of the Tech Center.