A new wave of civic pride is greeting drivers and pedestrians across Naperville thanks to the collaboration between city officials, local youth and advocates for public art.
The city of Naperville invited young artists from school districts 203 and 204 to submit their own designs for new banners commemorating America’s 250th anniversary.
“They’re fantastic!” said Shannon Greene Robb, Co-Founder of ArtForum Naperville.
From paper to public art
Officials sought the expertise of ArtForum to select 50 out of the roughly 80 submissions to be translated from hand drawings on paper to the large-scale banners…