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Michael Brown's mural has found its way into the eyes of travelers in downtown Chapel Hill
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By JIMGREENHILL
Staff Writer
The two parking lots on either side
of NCNB Plaza are perhaps the ugli
est spots in Chapel Hill. Michael
Brown has been working to change
that since May 15.
Driving up Airport Road into town
or along Rosemary Street, it's hard
to miss the mural Brown is painting
on the back of 109 East Franklin St.,
home of the Rite Aid Discount Cen
ter and Sera-Tec Biologicals.
The mural shows a stylized view
of Franklin Street, squeezed so that
both sides of the street fit on the wall.
The painting is almost entirely in dif
ferent shades of blue.
"The lady whose idea it was origi
nally thought school kids could do
it," said Brown, a Chapel Hill native
and graduate of the University.
He was referring to Joan Tetel
Hanks, coordinator of arts education
for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools. She proposed the project to
coincide with the May 20 Arts Down
town festival. The Downtown Com
mission asked Brown to design and
paint it.
The commission reviewed
Brown's proposals, which included
a steamship, a tiger face, the head of
a zebra, an abstract color design and
an upside down Old Well that he
said "would get in every newspaper
in the state."
The moonlit view of downtown
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was the commission's final choice.
Brown chose the postimpression
ist style of pointillism, in which paint
is applied in dots and brush strokes
in part because he felt it would be
easy for the local schoolchildren to
execute.
Concerns about insurance pre
vented the pupils from Guy B. Phil
lips Junior High School, Grey
Culbreth Junior High School and
Chapel Hill Senior High School from
working above six feet.
So Brown is completing the paint
ing with his brother, Paul, and friend
Tim Peck.
"Nobody has been anything but
supportive," Brown said. "Nice people
from all over town helped."
Brown's work includes sets for
off-Broadway plays, book illustrations
and medical and architectural ren
derings. Adam Cohen, the Daily Tar Heel
cartoonist, "participated very heav
ily," Brown said.
Cohen helped Brown transfer his
design from the original sketch to a
grid on the wall and made sugges
tions for changes that Brown included
in the final version.
Brown is using high quality latex
house paint and predicts that the mural
will last 15 years with a protective
coating.
Brown would like to paint more
murals in Chapel Hill. "I want the
back of Memorial Hall," he said. "I've
wanted it since I was a freshman."
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