Make sure to see Julian Stanczak’s  Canvas City Mural in Downtown Cleveland on the Winton Manor Apartments.

This project reexamines the important public art effort, City Canvas, that covered walls in downtown Cleveland in 1973-74 with colorful murals by established Cleveland artists, including the late abstract painter Julian Stanczak. As an homage to Stanczak, FRONT’s new project will reinstate his mural on its original site at the Winton Manor on Prospect and 9th Street. While the original mural program of the 1970s was undertaken to enliven a moribund downtown, this commissioned series of outdoor works intends to explore relationships between abstraction and consumer culture, between painting and the cityscape installed between Public Square and Playhouse Square. Passersby will be able to witness a visual call and response between a beloved Cleveland artist, and representatives of new directions in contemporary abstract painting. Additional murals will be projected using augmented reality technology, allowing visitors to envision these projects that will materialize in Cleveland’s downtown cityscape in future editions of FRONT.

Experience all of the murals on the free VR FRONT Canvas City app. Developed by the CMA’s Digital Innovation and Technology Services team. Click here to download the app.

Canvas City is made possible with major funding by The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation. The project is sponsored by Sherwin-Williams with additional support by the John P. Murphy Foundation.