(MIRROR INDY) — Have you seen the big gray metal boxes on street corners? They’re traffic signal boxes, and local artists can turn them into colorful public artworks that tell the story of your neighborhood.
In Southdale, artist Christina Hollering painted peony blooms and vining tomatoes as an ode to the Germans who settled in the southside neighborhood and built greenhouses. This spring, neighbors in Emerson Heights will complete a traffic signal box with a colorful compass, skyline of their neighborhood and their neighbor’s dog on it.
If you want to spruce up a signal box near you, you can’t just walk up to it with a brush. The city of Indianapolis owns the boxes. Indy Arts Council runs the city’s Streetcorner Canvases program, which works with neighborhood organizations and nonprofits to develop plans for public art on traffic signal boxes…