{"id":867250,"date":"2026-08-25T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867250\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:04:09","slug":"artist-returns-to-rochester-to-paint-new-murals-at-parkleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867250\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist returns to Rochester to paint new murals at Parkleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 One of the city&#8217;s signature stores is getting an exterior makeover.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Jim Kiselica is painting new murals at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkleigh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Parkleigh<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re all going to be florals again, but they&#8217;re not going to be like the original but more bouquet-ish,&#8221; Kiselica said. &#8220;But each bouquet is going to be a different set of flowers, but there will be a central theme for them. Of course, we&#8217;re going to keep the black on white awnings because it&#8217;s quintessential to Parkleigh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kiselica, the store&#8217;s design manager from 1995-1999, originally painted murals on the Park Avenue building in 1999 before he moved away. He returned to repaint them in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really touches my heart quite a bit because this is my home, and I got to leave a piece of me here,&#8221; Kiselica said.<\/p>\n<p>The murals have become a popular backdrop for customers to take photos. Kiselica said he was recently given the opportunity to come back and paint the third edition of the murals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot to me that I can move away, I can move to Florida, I&#8217;m now in North Carolina, and know that I have something that&#8217;s making somebody happy here in Rochester.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 One of the city&#8217;s signature stores is getting an exterior makeover. Artist Jim Kiselica is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-867250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867250","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=867250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}