Marcus Chambers
walks his dog past the West Side's newest mural, on the southside of the Lyndon
B. Johnson Apartments, Main Street and Humboldt Parkway. The mural was
created by Canadian artist Aaron Li-Hill to represent the people living in the
area. Emerson Barr, executive director of the
Buffalo Arts Commission, says that Mayor Byron Brown is active in the public
art sector. “He has contributed funding to the Public Art Initiative, and he
has played a role in the increase in art installations citywide,” Barr says. Most murals are privately done, Barr says, but some
are facilitated by the Buffalo AKG Art
Museum’s Public Art Initiative. By Kelly Ackerman
