Small, run-down park reborn as a mural park on the East Side

A run-down park on San Antonio’s East Side has been given new life by an artist whose career started with late-night graffiti but then blossomed into something else altogether.

At the Healy-Murphy Park an artist aims to build: the state’s largest outdoor mural gallery.

I-37 is just a block away, so there’s always a light din of traffic. Artist and muralist, Shek Vega, said this acre-slice of San Antonio’s East Side is special.

“Right now, we’re at 210 Nolan at Healy-Murphy Park. This was a park that had seen better days,” Vega said. “It sits in an interesting area in the center of a once industrial area.”…

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