Cedar Rapids Expands As Mural City With New Works
Three new murals rise around Cedar Rapids in the Czech Museum and Library building Czech Slovak Protective Society Hall and Fifth Avenue parkade with a fourth planned at 222 Third Findmore Ave SE. The project is led by Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and Murals & More, inviting volunteers to help at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art on Saturdays in July and August.
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Edar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Czech-Slovak Protective Society
Fourth Avenue SE
City of Five Seasons
Armstrong Development Co
Third Findmore Ave
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Aaron Loan
Murals & More
Iowa City
Eliezer Sotillo
Sotillo
Murals & More CR
Third Street
Second Avenue SE
Third Avenue SE
Murals Showcases by Sotillo Creasey and Team at Three Venues
Reanimate by Eliezer Sotillo at Fourth Avenue SE Parkade and a second mural by Megan Creasey with AMPT at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library. A third piece titled Current the Pulse of Life by Tom Torluemke Bill Pozzo Linda Dorman and Neil Gainer fills CSPS Hall.
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Eliezer Sotillo
Fourth Avenue SE Parkade
The
Pulse of Life
Tom Torluemke
Bill Pozzo
Linda Dorman
Neil Gainer
Csps Hall
Cedar Rapids mural depicts Iowa history in Cedar Rapids
Rider Heller reviews the mural plan at the National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids as Megan Creasey names Achieving Maximum Potential a co designer. A father watches birds from his window near CSPS Hall as the mural titled Current the Pulse of Life portrays scenes from Cedar Rapids and Iowa history based on Mona Van Duyn’s poem Letters to a Father.
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Megan Creasey
National
Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Rider Heller
Cedar Rapids
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Csps Hall
Mona van Duyn
Iowa
Mass shooting details emerge in Pulse nightclub attack
Investigators probe Noor Salman wife of Omar Mateen for prior knowledge of the plan. FBI interviews reveal Salman accompanied him to buy ammunition and to the Pulse nightclub before the attack. Authorities consider explosives booby traps on hostages.
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Orlando
Fla
Omar Mateen
Mateen
Noor Z. Salman
FBI
Salman
Cedar Rapids Mayor urges statewide minimum wage change
Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett in a Gazette interview urged Gov. Branstad and the Legislature to set statewide minimum wage standards. He advocates raising the rate to 8 dollars an hour with a 75 cent increase to lift Iowa toward the regional middle, to reduce a patchwork of local policies.
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Cedar Rapids
Ron Corbett
Linn County
Terry Branstad
Corbett
The
Gazette
Iowa
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