Scattered through Oakland, CA and local neighborhoods you will find art on trash cans inspiring residents to keep the community clean. Juan Lopez uses the trash cans as a canvases depicting beautiful, thematic scenes.
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Get a glimpse at the many beautiful trash can mosaics in the slideshow above.
“Inspired by tiled trash cans she saw in the Allendale neighborhood, Vivian Romero contacted her neighborhood group in Adams Point and volunteers started working on the trash cans around Grand Avenue and Lake Merrriit with the help from a city grant and the expertise of tile setter Juan Lopez.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Watch this time lapse video of Juan creating one of the doves for one of his trash cans shown in the slideshow.
Related article: Lovely lakeside mosaics beautify walks along Lake Merritt’s northshore.
It’s boundaries delineated by MacArthur Blvd, Harrison and Grand Avenue, Adams Point is a triangular neighborhood situated along the northern shore of Oakland’s beautiful Lake Merritt.
Adams Point Neighborhood group member Vivian Romero noticed a lot of the mosaics around the other parts of town and suggested that their neighborhood become involved in the project… Read more by the Examiner.com.