Ophelia Chambliss and Carlisle High School Art Students
Proceed through the gate at the end of the sidewalk and continue through the adjacent parking lot until you arrive back at Cherry Street. Make a right and then an immediate left onto Louther Street. Continue along Louther until you reach St. Paul’s Church and then make a left onto West Street remaining along the left side of the street.
Just before you reach Locust Street, you will see a clue to our next stop on the side of a building: some mural painting that appears to wrap around the corner of a building. Peek around the corner and you will see a large vibrant mural.
This mural is the result of a collaborative project between Color Carlisle and the Carlisle Area School District. Color Carlisle Mural Project is an unincorporated group formed to address measures for increased safety and awareness in various neighborhoods in Carlisle, PA. The goal, through a community art initiative, is to create sustainable living spaces by updating strategic locations with public art. Artist Ophelia Chambliss was the artist in residence for this project; she worked with portfolio-level art students at Carlisle high school supervising the installation.
The project began as a checklist of the places and objects that Carlisle High School students considered important to the town’s past, present, and future. That checklist became images. Those images were revealed to the public in October of 2018.
The resulting mural features images of landmarks like the Carlisle Theatre and the Old Courthouse, as well as images symbolic of the area’s agricultural heritage and the iconic red Adirondack chairs at Dickinson College.
For your next stop, continue north along West Street until you reach West Penn Street. Take a right on Penn and walking through Memorial Park.