Crayon Box - Hartford, CT
Posted by: neoc1
N 41° 43.860 W 072° 40.464
18T E 693415 N 4622523
"Crayon Box" is located on Franklin Avenue at the intersection with Chester Street in the South End neighborhood of Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WM10PJE
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2019
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In 2014 the "Outside the Box" program was organized by Hartford's Marketing, Events, & Cultural Affairs Office (MECA) and Livable Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative. Area artists were selected, and each winning artist was given a utility box on Franklin Avenue to paint, to create a series of painted utility boxes public art along Franklin Avenue.
The utility box on Franklin Avenue at the intersection of Chester Street was painted by Jeanne Manzelli, a graduate of the Maine College of Art and currently a instructor in drawing, sculpture, 3D design and color theory at Tunxis Community College.
On all four sides of the utility box she has depicted a realistic looking box of crayons.
On the front and north side of the box is stenciled:
REDYELLOW
BLUEGREEN
ORANGERED
and the south side of the box is stenciled:
ORANGE
BLUERE
DGREEN
but not always in the corresponding colors.
On a small panel on the back of the box she has included a cloudscape.