Broken Crow: The Bigger Picture Project – Knight Foundation
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Broken Crow: The Bigger Picture Project

The Bigger Picture Project, an Artplace grantee,  is a set of four murals painted on locations along St. Paul’s central corridor. Artists John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons (known together as Broken Crow), designed the images to fit together to create one Bigger Picture along the route of the light rail. Using enormous stencils, they painted animals in motion—lions, camels, rhinos, wolves, tortoises and foxes—varied creatures moving forward together, much like the light rail passengers themselves. The complete composition measures 32 feet tall by 60 feet wide. This is the first multiple-location mural; no one who contributed to the project had tried, or even heard of, anything like it.