Public invited to tour Palo Alto’s colorful new murals

Public invited to tour Palo Alto’s colorful new murals

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/07/public-invited-to-tour-palo-altos-colorful-new-murals/

Palo Alto’s California Avenue has been getting a colorful makeover this week thanks to a mural festival sponsored by the city’s public art program. Three artists — Paz de la Calzada, Nicole Ponsler and Olivia Losee-Unger — were invited to create the large-scale paintings and have been working on them all week.

Ponsler and Losee-Unger brought a little “flower power” to their work. Losse-Unger painted “Moonflowers for Georgia” on the wall at Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels, with the white blooms bursting out of a green and lavender background. (They were a favorite flower of Georgia O’Keeffe — Losse-Unger’s personal artistic hero. Meanwhile, Ponsler’s “Bloom” has come to life of Palo Alto Central, a few blocks away adding the sunset colors of marigolds to a blank wall.