Sights To See - Murals & Sculptures

Where To Find The Murals & Sculptures

[As with every post on this blog, this is a work in progress!   Feel free to leave a comment, or post on the Valley Girl Views facebook page, to let me know of those I have missed.]

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Columbia & Montour County Murals

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Mill St, Danville	Danville Pa

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Lycoming County Murals

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The Hughesville Fair Mural Hughesville Pa	The Pilato Mural Williamsport Pa	Silverthorn's Ride Muncy Pa
Chief Woapalanne  statue, part of the Whispering Giants series by Peter Toth Williamsport Pa	On The Sawhorse Cafe Williamsport Pa

	Jersey Shore Veterans Park

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Northumberland County Murals
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49 Broadway On The Coup Agency Building	Front Street On The Moose Building	73 Broadway On The Speedy's Building
30 Elm Street Former Florist Building	Warrior Run High School	STEAM Labs Mural

Chief Shikellamy  North 4th just behind the First National Bank	Shamokin PA

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Snyder County Murals

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Middleburg Pa	Susquehanna Valley Mural Selinsgrove Pa	Rudy Gelnett Mural Selinsgrove Pa

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Union County Murals

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The Parallax Mural On The Piers Lewisburg Pa	Modern Art Alley Lewisburg Pa	Pear Alley Lewisburg Pa
In Mifflinburg Pa	The Farmers Market Mural Lewisburg Pa	Mifflinburg Pa

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https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2024/02/artists-in-north-central-susquehanna.html

The Cherry Alley Murals, Lewisburg Pa

 
Located at 324 Cherry Alley, Lewisburg, PA, United States, Pennsylvania

The idea for the alley came from Bob Albin, a Lewisburg business owner. 

“I was remodeling my building and the building next to it was an ugly, gray drab cinder block building. I came up with the idea --  that would be a great place for a mural,” Albin said. He approached the owners of the building who agreed to having a mural painted on it.

Albin hired artist Jim Reid to begin the first mural.  Reid, who lived half the year in Lewisburg and the other half in Barcelona Spain, says  that he is influenced by artists including Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Andre Matisse, and Picasso.

The TriColor Circus Mural

Inspired by Miro & Calder

Read more about this mural here:

https://sites.google.com/view/ximreiart/home/murals/tricolor-mural

“My first artistic hero was Joan Miró.  I saw an exhibition of his in Milan, and was amazed that such childlike art could be treated with such importance; that hundreds of people could line up for it. The paintings were so beautiful and simple.  That was the first art exhibition I ever attended.”   - Reid

The Hilma Mural

Read more about the inspiration for this mural here:

https://sites.google.com/view/ximreiart/home/murals/hilma-mural

The Catalunya Mural, painted in 2020
Inspired by Matisse, Miro, and Calder

Read more about the inspiration for this mural here:

https://sites.google.com/view/ximreiart/home/murals/cataluyna-mural

Gaudi Mural,  Painted in 2021
Inspired by  Antoni Gaudí

Read more about the inspiration for this mural here:
https://sites.google.com/view/ximreiart/home/murals/gaudi-mural

The murals have QR Codes, leading you to pages that tell you more about the art.

A GoFundMe campaign helped to raise money for the subsequent murals in the alley.

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An Index Of Local Murals

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The Murals have their own facebook page - 
Modern Art Alley

More About The Artist

More about the murals

The Piers Mural, Lewisburg Pa

 
The  Parallax Mural in Lewisburg, 539 Cherry Alley, Lewisburg, PA 17837
Located right off the Rail Trail, behind the Siam Restaurant.

From Huffnagle park, cross market street at the railroad tracks, entering the rail trail.  The piers will be visible almost immediately on your left.  [It's not always this wet  here- we've had a LOT of rain recently]

Parallax is "the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions."

Steve Gibson, Founder of Milton Art Academy, painted a mural on 18 of The Piers, "an arc of 32 concrete monoliths which are one of the most prominent industrial ruins in town."

We had stopped by to watch the progress of the painting of the mural, in April of 2023

WNEP reported that the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership received a multi-year state grant for $100,000 to bring art to this park.  Plans include lighting, benches, and a small stage.

Mural in Progress, April 2023

Labeled "coal trestle" on the 1925 Sanborn Map

I had labeled these "Cannery Track Supports" in a previous post, based on "old timers" remembrances.  I was corrected by a modern researcher, who looked at the Sanborn maps and found this image.  Is it possible the tracks also came across to the cannery?  That I can't tell you.  I do hesitate to disagree with others memories, but also acknowledge that our memories can be faulty.  There were many, many changes in this area over the decades,  the cannery was demolished sometime around the 1972 flood.  In 1942 an article described the cannery, mentioning that the "shipping room which connects to the Penna R.R. siding is also two stories."

The Piers Before The Mural

In 2022, The Lewisburg Downtown Partnership awarded a grant to local artist, Steve Gibson, to create an outdoor temporary public art mural for "The Piers Art Park". 

Before the Mural

A press release stated:

"The Piers Art Park area was a coal yard with sheds, office, and scale house with one trestle connecting the Pennsylvania Railroad (the east/west railroad, now the Buffalo Valley Rail Trail) and one trestle connecting the Reading Railroad (the north/south railroad)."

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An Index Of Local Murals

Other murals in Lewisburg include:

• "Modern Art Alley" on Cherry Alley between 3rd & 4th streets.  
• Honoring Donald Heiter - on the Heiter Community Center Building at North 5th and St John Sts.

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The area on the 1913 Sanborn Map

1925

1944

William "Bill" Guyer Obit, 1978

Inspiration: Lycoming - The Pilato Mural in Williamsport

Worlds Largest Outdoor Portraiture Mural

Personally, I've looked at this mural many, many times - photographing it dozens of times over the years.  But I had no idea what all was in here.  There's an actual purple heart embedded in this mural.  Not only is there a part of the twin towers, but part of the steel was ground up and used in the paint for that section of the mural.  Families and friends of those pictured have come and added their handprints,  and letters.  Some have even painted halos on their loved ones.  Bring 3D Glasses - part of the mural is even 3D!

In Pilato's videos he says there's nothing like this anywhere else in the world - and I'm confident that is true.  

Named Inspiration: Lycoming, the mural is 96 feet by 24 feet and covers the walls of three buildings in a u-shape, around a parking area on 4th street, across from the Community Arts Center. [223 West 4th Street between Government Place and William Street]

Artist Michael Pilato spent more than two years planning, crafting, and creating the mural.

The mural depicts the history of Lycoming County, and hundreds of people who lived in the area and influenced the county in a positive way.

Throughout the mural can be found handprints representing family members and friends of someone featured in the mural.