HUGE DOWNTOWN MURAL SET TO BEGIN FRIDAY

  
Rear view of the Faske Building.

Mural artist Jeff Soto will begin painting a huge mural on the back of the Faske Building in downtown Brenham tomorrow (Friday).  The mural painting is part of the weekend long Texas Arts and Music Festival.  Soto will be meeting and talking with students from the area as he begins at 10:00 AM Friday.  Art students from the Brenham, Burton, and Sealy Independent School Districts will get a chance to hear and see some of Soto’s techniques in mural painting.

Jeff Soto will also be speaking tonight at Blinn College.  His talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Blinn-Brenham Student Center Conference Room.  Soto will speak about one of his most recent projects, creating concert posters for Metallica, and how he has used his graphic design skills to create concert posters, large murals, and various other projects.

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  1. I drove through town today. I saw all of the portacans. I saw all the street and parking lots blocked off too. And I wondered? How much of my tax dollars are being spent on this charade? Is this wasted tax dollars? Is this why my property taxes continue to increase? Can the Main Street Leaders answer these questions? I don’t wan’t my tax dollars paying for crayolas unless it is for kindergarten at BISD.

    1. Mr. or Ms. White (aka Taxpayer). I tried replying to you directly, but apparently none of the emails you have given are real email addresses. If you had read any of our articles or listened to any of the interviews about the Texas Arts and Music Festival, you would know that it is not a Brenham Main Street or a City of Brenham festival. It is being staged by several downtown businesses after a successful first event last October. Personally I applaud the organizers for bringing something fresh and new to our town. None of us are getting younger, and I believe there is a place downtown for things that the younger generation, and art lovers, appreciate. As long as we don’t lose our valuable historic downtown base, bringing in new ideas is a good thing. I don’t ever recall Downtown Brenham being as alive after 5 p.m. as it is currently. Young people actually like to come downtown and hang out….something that hasn’t happened since Mr. Gatti’s closed on Main Street many decades ago. The youth are our future. If they see no reason to come downtown, when they are running the show they may not see a reason for there being a downtown.

      1. Well said My whitehead , Some people just like to complain, They are just happier that way. I for one love this music feast downtown. and I agree downtown Brenham has not been this busy after five since the 70’s. and I also would like to thank all the sponsors of this week events. To Mr Or Mrs Taxpayer I say just stay home today if you don’t like what’s going on downtown today. But maybe if you did go downtown and had some fun you may be a happier person and not just see the negative in things.

    2. Don’t want to pay local taxes? Sell your property and do your shopping somewhere else.

  2. Hello folks, let’s get honest about all the mural painting, Main Street , etc. because the sole motivation is sales tax revenue, period. Less than a century ago, downtown served the purpose of serving people’s needs. Banking, supplies for family living and agriculture, doctors, attorneys, plus county and state business. With the exception of attorneys and county /state business, the reminder of businesses do not provide for the necessities of living. The majority of necessity businesses are outside the downtown area. Increasing sales tax revenue is necessary to fuel the growth of city government. I am sure most citizens would agree that allowing larger firms with better wages to enter our business parks is preferable to increasing tourist type businesses downtown. The average wage earner in this county cannot afford to shop in the small businesses downtown.

  3. Wow, This really compliments the vintage design of our old downtown buildings. This is a spectacular way to show respect to the history of these old buildings. It is remarkable that our local main street program is allowing this freedom of graffiti and expression. We should all thank our elected government and main street administrator for allowing this activity.

    1. It’s Brenham Renaissance. As a newcomer to Brenham, I see a town that is rooted in history but growing up through the sidewalk cracks. As an example, the building on Commerce and South Park, now a liquor store, “represents 3 centuries; Tobin Park on one side as the 19th century, plastered stucco over the old brick on another, a nod to the 20th century, and now a 21st century mural on the other side, that’s 300 years on one building in a city. How great is that!” I am sincerely gratuitous to the visionaries that bow to their ancestry while celebrating their future.

      1. Unfortunately, the renascence that is creeping through the cracks of the sidewalks may have started out from a liquor store, but now has no respect for history in Texas; especially many of our monuments or historical building landscape. This is making a permanent detrimental mark on history and our society that will be tough to paint over. One day, the newcomers, will wake up, and the reasons and principals that attracted them to Brenham, will be gone. At that point, Texas and Brenham will have lost our unique history, and be like any other state on the West or East coast.

        1. Would you care to elaborate on these ‘principals’ that are disappearing? As a life-long native of Brenham, I’m pretty familiar with the area, and I don’t recall ever seeing a plaque or monument listing Brenham’s official ‘City Principles.’

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