The Preview Mural

In mid-August Sarah Rutherford and Justin Suarez, both of Rochester, New York, stopped in Jackson to make this mural on the wall of the Blake Building. It's a delight, but you've gotta be concerned about its visibility as those trees grow. (Not that I want them gone.) Yet the trees' fall colors complement the painting, here.

The artists have worked together before, but immediately prior to the Jackson stop they'd been working on separate murals for Battle Creek's Color the Creek Festival--though I notice the murals are on the same building, and overlap at the corner. Suarez generally paints wildlife murals, while Rutherford's work has been decidedly feminist.

The festival's other murals were painted a couple weeks later. This mural was the occasion for a thank-you party, given by the festival organizers for the sponsors and monetary patrons.