Jun 17, 2020

Beautifying downtown Great Bend

Posted Jun 17, 2020 3:34 PM
Canvas murals are placed in vacant downtown shops to help beautify Great Bend.
Canvas murals are placed in vacant downtown shops to help beautify Great Bend.

By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post

A couple of years ago, the City of Great Bend started a community paint project. The idea is to create canvas murals to be placed in windows of unused buildings and stores downtown.

Great Bend Community Coordinator Christina Hayes says the first one appeared near the Crest Theater and just recently a painting was added to the windows of a vacant building along Main Street.

"Not only is this a project that the community worked on, it also helps fill our windows and is a brighter piece to our downtown," said Hayes.

The canvas is located in the old Hallmark shop owned by American State Bank. The painting is on hooks and can easily be moved somewhere else if a store moves into the building.    

"Little kids as young as one year old helped paint this," Hayes added.