Two new murals — completed by students participating in a fall break camp organized by the Pennyroyal Arts Council — have been unveiled in downtown Hopkinsville.
The students campers who painted the murals were Myaunna Wilkerson, Avery Reynolds, Caroline Boggess, Kaydin Nolte, Lucy Smith, Henry Brashears and Hadley Mathis, an arts council spokeswoman told Hoptown Chronicle.
One of the murals is a spaceship image on a brick wall at the rear of the Pennyroyal Area Museum property on East Ninth Street. It is a nod to the Kelly Green Men story, which is featured in the museum exhibit.
The other mural, with a bright blue and white “Welcome to Hopkinsville” message, was painted on the side of the Byers and Harvey real estate office building next door to the museum.
Paula Gieseke, an art teacher for Christian County Public Schools who has designed a number of murals in Hopkinsville over the past decade, led the arts council’s mural camp.
Here’s another story about a couple of Gieseke murals on a Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority building. And this story is about the bell hooks mural she created on the Christian County Historical Society’s building on Ninth and Liberty streets.
