What began as an idea at a revitalization meeting in Roseville, has now come to reality. Chairperson of the Roseville Community Fund, Carol Shaw, reached out to Kristyne Gilbert, Executive Director of the Buchanan Center for the Arts, to bring to life a mural for the Roseville community. Artist and Program Coordinator with the BCA Rebecca Quick, shares how the project came to be:
“It is Debbie and Dan Taflinger’s building, The Forgotten Rose. We met with them on a Friday afternoon, Friday morning and discussed what that would look like and I took notes. Then I talked to a couple of people outside of the original group that are from Roseville and discussed the top 5 of Roseville, what should be included in that mural.”
In discussing with the Taflinger’s and Roseville natives, the water tower, the buildings, and agriculture kept resurfacing as top areas to capture in the mural.
“The water tower is in the center. It has bowling pins for the bowling alley. There is what is like the Lunch Box now, that kind of building symbolized, the antique store. A power line with the four-way stop at the top with the cows and pigs with wheat behind it. Silos to the right with a house that symbolizes a generic house in Roseville,” states Quick. “Onto the other side we have the Ferris wheel for the Warren County Fair, there is a cow for the fair as well, and then at the bottom is an ice cream cone. It is all wrapped around in a bubble shape to be like a thought bubble, so it can be kind of a photo op where you can stand next to it like you are thinking of Roseville. It is topped off with ‘Welcome to our Community.’”
The Roseville mural was made possible by funding from the Galesburg Community Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the McDonough Power Operation Roundup.
