Waving 'Gerald Ford' - Mural - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
N 42° 16.879 W 083° 44.472
17T E 273974 N 4684650
A waving Gerald Ford - mural - greets passers by from the rear of a narrow alley, on the second story of the Graduate Inn (Former Campus Inn) next to the parking entrance, off Huron Street in downtown Ann Arbor.
Waymark Code: WM11AQC
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2019
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"Observant pedestrians passing the Graduate Inn on the Huron and near State may have noticed a surprise hotel guest waving at them from a second-story balcony.
A new life-sized mural of U.S. President Gerald Ford is the work of Ann Arbor artist Katherine Larson, who undertook the project at the request of Campus Inn owner Dennis Dahlmann.
Ford could be just the beginning of the project, which Larson said will also include Bo Schembechler and Desmond Howard if public reaction is positive.
The mural is Larson’s first outdoor mural in Ann Arbor, but hardly her first in the area. She said approximately 30 of her 150 murals are in the area, with others appearing as far away as Fargo, North Dakota.
Larson used a technique developed in California to avoid spending weeks on a scaffold painting the mural. She did most of the work on a canvas made of special material that is attached to the wall using a powerful adhesive.
“You use a material called parachute cloth,” she said.
“It does not stretch diagonally and does not deteriorate. Both of those are important because if you do a mural in sections you don’t want a piece to stretch diagonally because if it does it will distort. And if you think about it, if a parachute stretched diagonally you would die, so they make it very well.”
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