Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Touch Up Day

Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Touch Up Day

Spent the day adding team logos and doing touch up to the 22 pieces selected to represent the Chicago Fire’s jerseys through the team’s history. I also installed plant pot rings for the plants that will be added to give this installation a “living wall” component. The pots are going to be painted to represent […]

Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Install Day

Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Install Day

Sometimes no matter the approach to the ball, the kick takes an odd deflection. While the Valspar Chicago Fire Jersey Mural was originally to be placed at a public school in the Little Village area of Chicago last year, repairs to the wall it was to go on prevented it from happening. After a reset […]

Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Paint Day

Chicago Fire Jersey Mural Paint Day

It’s been a good year for soccer in Chicago! The hometown Fire at the top of the Major League Soccer standings heading into the second half of the season and it is far from over. Wednesday night’s MLS All-Star Game, at Soldier Field offered up a fittingly elegant midsummer celebration of the city’s love affair […]

Toro Totem Mural

Posted on Jun 30, 2017 in Murals, Public Art, Street Art, Tony Passero
Toro Totem Mural

Some thoughts on the Toro Totem Mural located on Kedzie at the intersection of Belmont in the Avondale Community of Chicago. When approached by the Avondale Neighborhood Association to come up with concept artwork to be put on the facing Kedzie walls, the only request was that I think of a way to relate my […]

RamZelle Mural

Posted on Jun 28, 2017 in Murals, Public Art, RamZelle Mural, Street Art, Tony Passero
RamZelle Mural

Just wrapped up the RamZelle Mural located on Kedzie at the intersection of Belmont in the Avondale Community of Chicago. Some folks have asked why this mural is named as it is. At a root level, the name of the piece is a combination of Ram and Gazelle. But there is more to it than […]

Fly Chair

Posted on Jun 1, 2017 in Chicago, Dimensional, Public Art, Street Art, Tony Passero
Fly Chair

A recycled chair I painted for the Have A Seat Chicago Public Art Initiative. Chairs created for this program will be revealed at the Six Corners BBQ Fest on June 10th and will be out at streets of Six Corners throughout the summer of 2017.

K9s for Cops Bird Dog

Posted on May 29, 2017 in Chicago, Dimensional, K9s for Cops, Public Art, Tony Passero
K9s for Cops Bird Dog

Early in 2017, a group of leaders from the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation and PAWS Chicago came together to launch a new public art installation campaign and fundraising initiative called K9s for Cops. The initiative serves to memorialize Chicago’s heroic fallen officers while supporting the families of police officers killed or catastrophically injured in the […]

K9s for Cops Sphinx Shepherd

Posted on Mar 24, 2017 in Chicago, Dimensional, K9s for Cops, Public Art, Tony Passero
K9s for Cops Sphinx Shepherd

Early in 2017, a group of leaders from the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation and PAWS Chicago came together to launch a new public art installation campaign and fundraising initiative called K9s for Cops. The initiative serves to memorialize Chicago’s heroic fallen officers while supporting the families of police officers killed or catastrophically injured in the […]