{"id":1702,"date":"2008-05-20T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/05\/20\/remaking-buffalo-one-wall-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:53:11","slug":"remaking-buffalo-one-wall-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/05\/remaking-buffalo-one-wall-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaking Buffalo one wall at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spectrum.buffalo.edu\/images\/5777\/muralart.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Kelly Warth and Rachel Good \u2013 The Spectrum) When UB graduate Kimberley Moore looks at the Broadway Market downtown, she sees more than blank walls \u2013 she sees a chance to revitalize the community with art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">In February, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown named 2008 the \u201cYear of the Arts\u201d during his State of the City address. More recently, AmericanStyle magazine named Buffalo the number one mid-sized art city in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Moore began the Buffalo Mural Arts Program as an internship project while at UB. This summer, the program will pay for the creation of seven murals on buildings of businesses on Buffalo\u2019s East Side. These murals will reflect the identity of the City of Buffalo with the support of Common Council President David Franczyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cWe\u2019re really interested in city beautification and having a more positive image for Buffalo. Everyone thinks it\u2019s just snow and losing sports teams,\u201d said Moore, who is the program coordinator and project manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One of the program goals is to bring more people into downtown Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cThere have been studies by other successful programs that shows that murals increase revenue for local businesses, and more visitors interested in cultural tourism and residents come to the area,\u201d Moore said<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">[<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.buffalo.edu\/article.php?id=36740\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kelly Warth and Rachel Good \u2013 The Spectrum) When UB graduate Kimberley Moore looks at the Broadway Market downtown, she sees more than blank walls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}