The Peale's storytelling program launched in the summer of 2016, in conjunction with the MuseWeb Foundation. The storytelling program is a new way to discover the people and places of the city, as told by the residents of Baltimore. To date, we have shared more than 1,500 stories online, through live events at the Peale, and in Baltimore’s communities.
In this story response, LaRae Wilson-Edwards of Baltimore talks with a Peale staffer about a mural painted by Baltimore street artist Adam Stab, located near the intersection of St. Francis Street and Whitelock Street in Baltimore.
LaRae: It's really amazing. I walk passed here everyday. I never really paid any attention. It has some of my favorite colors, that pink and the purple you see. I love pink and I never really paid any attention, but now, it's like . . . I'm not an artist. I can't draw a stick person, but this is just talent, so I'm hoping that someone else in this neighborhood, young children see it, and realize that they're capable, that they're capable of doing something like this. Because that's just amazing that a person could really do something like that. It really is; it's amazing. I would never think, I mean look at the detail on the birds. Everything is just so detailed, it really looks lifelike. That looks 3-D there, the little bucket. You know, that's just great. It really is.
Nancy: Would you like to see more art like this around?
LaRae: Definitely. Definitely.
Nancy: What does it do for you?
LaRae: I mean the color is uplifting. Everything is so concrete and drab, you know. Even our trees don't get all the wonderful colors in the fall. You know, like, we don't have enough of them. We just don't have the color. That's just very...it's a bright spot now. It will make me start to look for others now. Seeing that will make me start to look for others. There's some others around; I just never really paid attention.
Nancy: Thank you.
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