{"id":582242,"date":"2026-08-27T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582242\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:28:09","slug":"new-3000-square-foot-mural-coming-to-kalamazoo-depicting-kalamazoo-river-valley-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582242\/","title":{"rendered":"New 3,000 square foot mural coming to Kalamazoo, depicting Kalamazoo River Valley Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2014 A vibrant new mural is coming to Kalamazoo.<\/p>\n<p>The artist and design have been chosen for the 3,000 square foot public mural, set to be painted on a large wall facing North Westnedge Avenue at the corner of West Willard Street, on the side of a large industrial building.<\/p>\n<p>Prolific muralist Patrick Hershberger will carry out the work this September, according to a release from Bike Friendly Kalamazoo. <\/p>\n<p>Entitles &#8220;Riding the KRVT,&#8221; the mural will depict a variety of cyclists and the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail, or KRVT.<\/p>\n<p>The concept, expressing the theme of the joys of bicycling, was chosen by Clark Logic, who owns the building the mural will be painted on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kalamazoo River Valley Trail is such an important development for our city. It connects our local non-motor traffic to all these incredible adjacent trails across the state of Michigan. My new mural, &#8216;Riding the KRVT,\u2019 will be located on a bike lane that joins with the path,&#8221; said Patrick Hershberger. <\/p>\n<p>436 West Willard Street is a historic industrial property, dating back over a century.  Clark Logic acquired the property in 2024, and has focused on restoring and modernizing the site.<\/p>\n<p>Bike Friendly Kalamazoo began their public mural program in 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KALAMAZOO, Mich. \u2014 A vibrant new mural is coming to Kalamazoo. The artist and design have been chosen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-582242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}