Carter Manor

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.