Category: Trail Art

Vernacular Art on the greenway is alive and well. While the officially sanctioned art is interesting and obvious, there is a collection of ‘art projects’ scattered across the greenways that are spontaneous – and often get whitewashed after a brief showing. Tunnels are great places for an artist to work in peace, though sharp eyes… Continue reading Graffiti

For a cyclist, the Art Museum Park is best skirted on the perimeter. The park is a great destination, or a place to park for bike rides to Umstead Park and Cary, but its popularity makes for lots of pedestrians, dogs, and kids – and potential entanglements with cyclists. The Reedy Creek Greenway bridge is… Continue reading Art Museum Park

A sewer-up is a structure that looks like a rustic version of the nose of a Space Shuttle rising out of the ground. Greenways users are familiar with them as many of the greenways around Raleigh follow sewer lines. Often you can smell the sewer-ups long before you see them. Raleigh Artist Morgan Cook has… Continue reading The Alphabet Project

Near the intersection of Walnut Creek Trail and Little Rock Trail this Trashfish sculpture was a ‘reconfiguration’ of trash culled during a clean up of the nearby Walnut Creek. The trashy materials ranged from plastic grocery bags to car tires, and even an old VHF antenna that bore a striking resemblance to a spine. The… Continue reading Trashfish R.I.P