{"id":661613,"date":"2026-05-24T03:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:33:15","slug":"international-artist-duo-brings-three-rivers-inspired-mural-to-the-landing-in-fort-wayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661613\/","title":{"rendered":"International artist duo brings three rivers-inspired mural to The Landing in Fort Wayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; A new mural is making its way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelandingfw.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thelandingfw.com\/\">The Landing<\/a> in downtown Fort Wayne. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">International artist duo Studio Giftig unveiled the masterpiece at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GFCzDarzRyNUs4xK7\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GFCzDarzRyNUs4xK7\">206 Pearl Street<\/a> on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s the latest project for Niels van Swaemen and Kaspar van Leek of the Netherlands, who say they\u2019ve been traveling the world creating large-scale murals since 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pair says the mural\u2019s design is inspired by Fort Wayne\u2019s three rivers, while incorporating other elements of the city, including Johnny Appleseed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">21Alive News talked with the artists about what they enjoy most about creating murals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">\u201cWe love other parts like in the studio, this woman we photographed in our own studio, the apples we photographed in the studio, and then we make this image we have in mind, and it\u2019s like a total process from the studio till here, and that\u2019s all that we love, but in general, the connection with the people and the community.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He says the woman in the mural represents the people in Fort Wayne. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mural is expected to be complete within the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WPTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) &#8211; A new mural is making its way to The Landing in downtown Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-661613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}