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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Mural Artist Selected for Church St./Route 13 Mural Project

Salisbury – Mayor Jake Day is pleased to announce that Salisbury artist Paul Boyd III has been selected to paint a community-themed mural at the corner of E. Church St. and Route 13. Boyd was chosen from a field of almost a dozen artists who submitted designs and work schedules for the project.

Based in Salisbury, Boyd’s design company, Seven Digits and Running (S’DAR) Studios, brings urban influence to portraiture, interior design, and fashion. Boyd’s work can be found in homes and businesses around Salisbury, and even in the office of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in New York City. Though his skill shines through in every piece he creates, Boyd’s talent for portraiture is remarkable. His portfolio is filled with stunningly lifelike paintings with tremendous depth and character.


“When we met with residents of the Church Street neighborhood to ask what they wanted the mural to be, the answers we heard gave us two clear priorities for the subject matter: depict the history of the African American community in Salisbury, and show us a road to the future. Paul’s design is exactly that. He nailed it,” said Mayor Day.

Boyd’s submission depicts 5 prominent figures; World War I hero and recipient of the American Distinguished Service Cross and French Croix de Guerre, Sergeant William Butler; Respected educator and Principal of Salisbury Industrial High School, Charles P. Chipman; Beloved Salisbury High School Teacher, Elaine Brown; Mortician to Salisbury’s African American community, James Stewart; and Dr. G. Herbert Sembly, who practiced medicine in Salisbury for over 60 years.

In addition to the faces of the esteemed figures which line the top of the mural, children are depicted in the foreground, playing and preparing for school. A train bisects the mural, indicating the passage of time. Two passengers await their turn to become guiding influences for younger generations, and a family holds hands as they face the future.

Upon completion, the mural will serve as a gateway to the Church St. neighborhood. It will be accompanied by a wayfinding sign which will celebrate notable architecture in the neighborhood.

“Paul Boyd is helping Salisbury accomplish something for the residents and businesses of the Church Street neighborhood that they have long deserved. We have eliminated a blighted property on an easily-ignored corner and replaced it with an attractive sign, a landscaped plaza, a beautiful gateway and a stunning piece of art that celebrates the neighborhood’s history. This neighborhood has been too often ignored, too little cared for, and too easily ripped apart by the highways that cut through it. It is high time we started to find ways to help those wounds heal.”

Work on the mural is expected to take approximately 5 weeks. Upon completion, the City will host a ceremonial ribbon-cutting.

75 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course.

Anonymous said...

Why do liberals insist on segregated projects to honor dead people. Is it too much to expect to have a mural which is race neutral that shows people of all colors working together?

Anonymous said...

Oh boy!! another crowd pleasing decision by some idiot!

Anonymous said...

WOW!! I guess it's fitting for what Salisbury is and represents today. The sad thing is Jake Day plays right into this national progressive agenda and his master plan is to be long gone when it finally boils over. What a spineless POS

Anonymous said...

Nothing like covering up your problems with a heavy coat of paint. It usually works until the paint dries.

Anonymous said...

On your right is the heroin, on the left is crack and on the right in the next block is meth thank you for shopping Salisbury's drug dealers! You all come back now ya hearrrr!

Anonymous said...

Replacing one blight with another. Nothing can improve in communities until you let go of the RACIST excuse. Placing racist murals just promotes the excuse for lack of integrity and moral/family values thats what really improves communities. Racist murals wont promote anything but more racist.

Anonymous said...

MLK WAS A KNOWN WOMANIZER.

Anonymous said...

Hope nobody spray paints it like they do Confederate Murals ?.

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: Wow! I wonder when the time will come when these cultural ( if it can be called cultural) icons will have to be destroyed in the name of political correctness. All of our icons are being systematically destroyed, so I guess there will come a day when this fad will get its due.

Anonymous said...

Has anybody noticed the uptick in gang fights involving guns lately... we have a gang problem and Salisbury is an unsafe place

Anonymous said...

This is great. Why didn't the community do upkeep on the murals already painted on Church Street? It's sad to see the paint peeling off.

Anonymous said...

How about a mural for WHITE PEOPLE I'm getting so fed up with this BULLSHIT.

Anonymous said...

Now we just need Pugh as mayor and we're all set.

Anonymous said...

How much?

Anonymous said...

WAS THIS VOTED ON ????

Anonymous said...

Restore Church St area ! Ha ! That's a good one !

Anonymous said...

Jake day enjoy the spending spree your mayorship is counting down.

Anonymous said...

How about a Mural of President Lincoln who FREED THE SLAVES ???????

Anonymous said...

12:52 PM of course not. because jake is only for jake. he doesn't represent the whole community.

segregate much?

the mural should represent the whole community and not a minority of the community
I don't even know who those people are and I bet most around here don't either.

more wasted tax dollars.

lipstick on a pig.

Anonymous said...

Hell no, it was not voted on. They do as they please. Gotta keep the thugs happy so they won't burn or tear the town down.Oh, where is the white people's mural going to be? What?????? You say there isn't going to be one?? Why the hell not??? If there was one it would be defaced the first night it was there. What a town this has become.

Anonymous said...

Agree. Tired of the same old song. African Americans have got to move on. We have Black brain surgeons, black President, and many other Blackd that made a name for themselves. It is only the those Blacks that don't want to move on. They want White people to pay for their lack of motivation.

Anonymous said...

11:19 AM. exactly, I 100% agree with you. This is nothing more than Jake, the snake, bullcrap.

Anonymous said...

You all wanted Jake Day you gotta him and all his progressive liberal beliefs. We're all just afraid of a little change JAKE says. Well you have a tribute to Harriet Tubman in Cambridge and now this. Boy the eastern shore is a hotbed for reverse racism these days. It's an absolute embarrassment to be associated with this garbage anymore

Anonymous said...

It will be covered in gang graffiti in a week.

Anonymous said...

100 ? Correct.

Anonymous said...

10:29, Really...do we have to go down that road? Womanizers hit parade; JFK, Ted Kennedy, Clinton, Eisenhower, Johnson, A/C D/C Manchurian President Obama and so many more...

I must say I would like to see a mural to show all races working together...

Anonymous said...

What is it with these pu***** ass whites attacking other whites with this continued racist crap? These people that frequent the area their talking about could give two shits about this mural or any other mural painted in the neighborhood. Give them their crack, alcohol and occasional prostitute and their as happy as a pig in shit

Anonymous said...

Pandering at its finest, must be an election coming.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to say this do I agree with Jake day constantly allowing divide in our community for his own personal gain, HELL NO. If they were going to do something so stupid why is it the same old scenario paint MLK on a build or name a street after him, big deal. My question is why is it in Salisbury the ONLY black they can use to memorialize is Charles Chipman?! These residents don't even know Chipman or what he supposedly did for Salisbury. Day is a race baiter and pacifies the black community with this nonsense and he screams on social media how he's doing such great humanitarian work. You can't just give give give to the black community and piss off the people that actually work and run the businesses that create all your tax revenue dumbass. Look at the mass migration going on in this country with the same agendas in place. Salisbury MD " B-MORE 2.0

bob pinto said...

Positive educated moral role models depicted on murals can serve as reminder to youths who drop out of school, do drugs, and see no reason to excel.

These are local heros who set a great example.

or would the critics rather get mad if the artist depicted Malcolm X or Che Guevera?

Anonymous said...

What is the cost of this? Whatever it is, I am quite certain it could be put to better use fighting the rampant crime in da ‘bury - another misguided waste of taxpayer money. Way to go Jake - you make us all proud (not!)

Anonymous said...

I'm white and his offends me. Why should I have to look at this racist mural everytime I ride that road ? Did any white people do some significant work in Salisbury that deserve to be on that wall also ?

Anonymous said...

Bring back Burma Shave signs!

Anonymous said...

TRUMP IS A KNOWN WOMANIZER

Anonymous said...

MLK WAS A WOMANIZER .

Anonymous said...

GOOD.

Anonymous said...

NOTHING like seeing a hood mural while driving through dabury guess what I AIN'T STOPPING.

OATH KEEPERS said...

The left lives in the past....and in the future...

the left never lives in the present


they are mentally deranged, sick and unhappy people

WHAA.. WHAAAA said...

537

go back to your mommys basement...

2nd Civil war not far off said...

I am sick of my town called

BURY

WTF

I pay taxes....I am sick of liberal, gay politicians in local government

cratering to demented, violent people on Section 8 assistance

drive by their Section 8 housing

all have Escalades, BMW, fancy cars
WTF

It's time to kick all the liberal asses put of Government

Anonymous said...

Psst 424, whites built the town. We don't have the need for a mural to see our accomplishments. We also LEAVE when the wrong folks are hired into politics...whereas others stay and bitch. Unfortunately there are towns which are sacrificed for the greater good. Salisbury was sacrificed years ago.

FACT!

Anonymous said...

3:48 PM, why are there no white faces in this mural? We only had Blacks who set fine examples are were local heroes? I think not!!

For real said...

just like Joesy, Yoke, and Baltimoe

Anonymous said...

AWESOME !!!!!

Anonymous said...

White kids need hero too

Anonymous said...

Always depicted in the worst neighborhoods. Why is that ?

Anonymous said...

7:41. Totally agree with you

Anonymous said...

By the sound of these comments y’all want a mural of white folks in white hoods and robes

Anonymous said...

OVERKILL JAKE DAY!! You have a statue of Harriet Tubman on SU campus and now this mural on the side of a building in one of the worst areas of town. What's next imbecile a statue of AL SHARPTON at the civic center? Which one of your artistic groupies is that project for? You're just a sad sad excuse for a man let alone a so called leader of a city

Anonymous said...

"to paint a community-themed mural at the corner of E. Church St. and Route 13"

That's just great Jake Day. Nothing like advertising to the world that Salisbury is nothing buy a GHETTO!!

Thousands of people from across the country ride through Salisbury and Wicomico County every single day and this idiot is painting a ghetto mural for the world to see.

Did you hear that? That noise was the sound of everyone locking their doors to make sure they are safe while driving through Salisbury.

Anonymous said...

This will cause multiple accidents at that intersection. When out of towners stop at that stoplight and look up and see the ghetto mural they will hit the gas pedal to get the Hell out of Dodge.

Anonymous said...

What an embarrassment for Wicomico County and the State of Maryland!

Anonymous said...

A real Mayor would do their best to get away from that ghetto image that Jake Day has promoted for our "community."

Anonymous said...

What is depicted, is a segregated society that worked. All of these people were black educated and thrived because of the support of a tight knit community that worked and was not subject to the despotic liberal slavery imposed by government social programs. I applaud Jake for a mural to point out the benefits of segregation.

Anonymous said...

Jake Day is being paid to project the ghetto image. He's inviting all the thug "housing voucher" recipients to get away from PG COUNTY and Baltimore and relocate to da 'bury. Him and his cronies can't build the welfare housing fast enough. Take a ride down beaglin park drive sometime from Bennett high school on down to the new mall. Not looking good for the people that are stuck in Salisbury and can't afford to relocate

Anonymous said...

It's fu***** sickening to watch Pus**** like Jake Day and his progressive liberal beliefs just cave in to all this racial bull***!! He sees first hand the REAL mindset and actions of the black community and the destruction it causes a community yet he does crap like this. I hate to say it people but Salisbury and wicomico county have been overrun by the illegals and black gangs from across the bridge. I guess day and his idiots think they can hide themselves and their families from what these policies have done to the city but eventually it will effect them as well. Why in god's name would you people allow someone like Jacob R. Day to have open reign on your city??

Anonymous said...

Those paintings are a red flag for welcome to the GUETTO just like MLB BLVD …...FACT.

Anonymous said...

I was at the Centre at Salisbury Mall today and I have never seen so many Mexicans and non-English speaking terrorists in all my life. Our country and the Eastern Shore has been invaded. We are in trouble, people.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
On your right is the heroin, on the left is crack and on the right in the next block is meth thank you for shopping Salisbury's drug dealers! You all come back now ya hearrrr!

May 11, 2019 at 10:15 AM

You left out the homeless bums and the prostitutes.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Those paintings are a red flag for welcome to the GUETTO just like MLB BLVD …...FACT.

May 12, 2019 at 6:26 PM

That's what I said!

Anonymous said...

Talk about snowflakes. A painting depicting a vet, an educator, and a doctor has you all feeling "attacked". Lol too funny

Anonymous said...

@5:43 who said anything about feeling attacked? After reading the comments I think it's pretty obvious that people are just sick of Jake Day's progressive look at me politics. Instead of bringing people together he goes out of his way to divide with childish immature garbage like this. MLK movement is long gone and it's pretty obvious blacks could give a shit as they continue to STRIVE to be hood rats and gangsters.

Anonymous said...

This shit is hilarious! Jake Day gives the blacks a playground or a mural or the LGBT community a striped crosswalk and they think he really cares for them. His hidden agenda is trying to pack his BS resume to further a political career. Just like tge national level of progressive liberal dumbasses he's merely using these people for his and his thieving construction buddies gain.

Anonymous said...

You saw Terrorists? Call the police, don’t comment on a blog.

Anonymous said...

They are honored because they achieved greatness despite segregation, not because of it.

Anonymous said...

To warn decent people that they need to turn around because they are near the GHETTTTO. Pretty smart idea, I think.

Anonymous said...

@11:50 you'll have to define greatness to me a little further. MLK apparently didn't have much of a long term effect on the black community as bad as things are in ALL the inner cities

Anonymous said...

Community themed? Yeah, right. Sure it will. Race themed more like it.

Anonymous said...

@ May 13 2019 at 2:55 PM. MLK was nothing more than a womanizer and a drunk. Not much of a role model. Then again, that's all they ever have for role models.

Anonymous said...

@May 13, 2019 at 11:50 AM. Name one example of greatness. We're waiting. Thought so.

Anonymous said...

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson? Oh wow. What a role model he is. A filthy rapper. Big deal.

Anonymous said...

@ May 13, 2019 at 1:36AM. Its because they come out like roaches when it rains or it's the weekend. I see them a lot on rainy days and one day they totally outnumbered the Americans. Sick of it. Blame the scum bag employers for giving them jobs, which causes them to come here.

Anonymous said...

@ May 12 2019 at 4:13 PM. No one twisted their arm to be in those programs. It's just plain laziness. They get on the programs and then blame others for how they live.

Anonymous said...

@ May 12, 2019 at 12:43 PM. Look everyone. a comment from a pillar of society. It's all racism, huh fool? It's getting old,try something new.