Destination Downtown Waynesboro (DDW) is one of 25 small towns awarded $50,000 in the latest round of T-Mobile Hometown Grants.
If you were to visit downtown Waynesboro, you’d see the community’s effort to curate their own street art gallery similar to that of a modern art museum. It showcases the abstract, fantastic, and much more. The grant will support the annual Virginia Street Arts Festival, which aims to expand the city’s library of street art. Since 2014, the street art festival has brightened the streets of Downtown Waynesboro with live mural installations and a weekend full of family fun. Destination Downtown Waynesboro began hosting the festival last year and added three large murals to the downtown landscape during a weekend full of festivities.
Since the inception of the festival, 16 murals have been installed between the Waynesboro Main Street district and the locality at large…