On Tuesday, August 28, 2018, over 35 members of the College Park community came together to “unveil” a mural on the underpass walls of the Baltimore Avenue bridge over the Paint Branch stream. This included people representing and from the City
College Park, Maryland – The College Park City-University Partnership, the City of College Park, the Lakeland Community Heritage Project, the University of Maryland, the UMD Office of Community Engagement, the College Park Arts Exchange, and M-NCPPC are excited to announce
Today, the artists completed the church, and three ladies featured on the wall. They are currently working on finishing the forest, a man, and the pastor’s face. They are also finishing with minor details to complete the mural. These images
Last week, the Lakeland Mural team continued to work on the mural with only two crew members left. The Partnership visited the artists on Friday to check in and at the same time the University of Maryland Office of Community
Thursday, August 2, 2018 – The mural is almost complete on the east side of the underpass. The west side will be completed by the end of next week, weather permitting. The Lakeland Mural Team is comprised of three lead
Tuesday, July 31, 2018 – The Lakeland Mural team is hoping to finish the project this week. They are filling in the faces for historical figures beginning to prepare the walls on the east side of the underpass.
Thursday, July 26, 2018 – The sun came out again. For the past week, the underpass wasn’t passable due to the rain and swollen stream, so we did not have artists out there working. But, today the team got back
Tuesday, July 17 – Partnership staff interviewed the Lakeland Mural team to see how the mural project was progressing: As you can see in the images, they are making good progress. It is estimated that this side of the underpass
Monday, July 16 – The Lakeland Mural Team is making significant progress on the mural. They have also started to scrape the east side of the underpass to prepare it for adding geometrical shapes to make both walls more appealing
Thursday, July 12, 2018 – the Lakeland Mural team was hard at work again painting this mural. Each day they work, they take about a one-hour lunch break. Partnership staff spotted two members of the team outside of College Park’s