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Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
...enormous piebald blue one emblazoned on Farmer Hilbert Schneider's 75-year-old barn at Johnson Creek, 34 miles east of Madison on Interstate 94. The blue cow, shown fullface, peers out from a halo of stars, sunbursts and corn stalks in a dazzling 1,530-sq.-ft. mural...
...grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Its purpose: to bring art to the countryside-and also bring forth the creative talents of local teenagers. "We wanted to give rural children a chance to use their imaginations," says Arts Board Executive Director Jerrold Rouby, "the same way urban mural programs have got ghetto kids involved in art." In two years some 300 youngsters, working under professional artists-in-residence, have taken up paintbrushes...
...rural mural program has brought praise from all sides. Kenneth Ray, assistant art professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, likens the paintings to "an outdoor museum." Governor Patrick Lucey sees the inspiration for "other projects that blend art with life." The kids are delighted, of course. "My folks were real proud of me," says Nick Folley, 16, who worked on the blue cow. With no mural to paint, "I would have sat around and done nothing, I suppose," he says. Meanwhile, Rouby has been getting inquiries from all over the country on how to start up similar ventures...
...very pleased because Print deals primarily with environmental and system graphics and this mural was designed specifically for a library," Merle Westlake, designer of the library, said...