{"id":241268,"date":"2026-07-11T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:16:35","slug":"community-mural-project-brightens-washington-park-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241268\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Mural Project Brightens Washington Park | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"unnamed.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1179\" height=\"655\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A neighborhood gazebo in Erie is getting a burst of color this weekend as the Sisters of St. Joseph and the City of Erie turn Washington Park into a community canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Kids rolled up their sleeves for a &#8220;Paint in the Park&#8221; project \u2014 a large paint-by-numbers mural covering the floor of the Washington Park gazebo.<\/p>\n<p>They created bright, wide-angle visuals as they transformed the gazebo with neighborhood pride and revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a chance for the youth to experiment, to have fun, and to learn skills at the same time and learn to express themselves. That&#8217;s really more important than anything.&#8221; Brad Ford, the gallerist shared.<\/p>\n<p>The collaborative installation was led by Ford, who says the goal is to make public art accessible to everyone, with no experience required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A neighborhood gazebo in Erie is getting a burst of color this weekend as the Sisters of St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103584,136,138,137,78121,755,103585,44994],"class_list":["post-241268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community-mural","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-neighborhood-pride","tag-public-art","tag-washington-park","tag-youth-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}