"The mural showed people making soap which was a huge industry in Toronto - it employed generations of Torontonians," said Leslie Barnes, a member of the Toronto and East York Community Preservation Panel (TEYCPP), which has been trying to find organizations willing to display the mural.
The Seaglass Carousel has been a dream of ours since it was first talked about back in 2005 as a sense of light. I was sitting in this area talking about how to draw people into the park. And they said, 'We need a light source.' And one of the landscape artists says, 'Warrie, what about a carousel?'
Critics of a proposed Chicano-themed mural in San Jose's northside sparked heated debates at a community meeting, underscoring cultural tensions and artistic representation.