KIRKSVILLE, Mo. \u2014 A colorful new addition to downtown Kirksville is gradually coming to life.<\/p>\n
Artist Gracie Blickhan, of Holts Summit, Missouri, is painting a large new mural on the south wall of Pickell Abstract Company at 115 South Franklin Street.<\/p>\n
Blickhan started the project a week ago.<\/p>\n
She has been painting professionally as an artist for five years now.<\/p>\n
She specializes in murals and window paintings.<\/p>\n
Blickhan told KTVO that this latest mural in Kirksville is approximately her 10th one.<\/p>\n
“The owner reached out about me doing this project, and she knows that mainly the art I do is more like nature, flowers, stuff like that, so she wanted me to incorporate that into the design,\u201d Blickhan said. \u201cBut also, since they’re a title company, she wanted the houses included, and then of course, since this is downtown, she wanted big letter of “Welcome to Downtown Kirksville.”<\/p>\n
The mural is being paid for with a $15,000 grant from AARP.<\/p>\n
Blickhan said it will probably take her about another week to finish the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KIRKSVILLE, Mo. \u2014 A colorful new addition to downtown Kirksville is gradually coming to life. Artist Gracie Blickhan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[425853,449,458,459,64,63,460,139778,134,69351,425852,425851,57481,2270,5423],"class_list":["post-855588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-aarp-grant","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-downtown","tag-entertainment","tag-flowers","tag-gracie-blickhan","tag-kirksville","tag-mural","tag-nature","tag-public-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}