Cuba, MO – Route 66 Mural City » Shelly Smith Steiger

Route 66 eyesore due for a makeover

Viva Cuba, a non-profit community betterment organization, plans to tackle this small pocket of blight in a new pocket project. Pocket projects are small transformations that improve a previously blighted or spoiled view. The projects may take a couple of hundred dollars or several thousand dollars as the Viva Cuba Garden at the intersection of Route [...]

Canadian artist Michelle Loughery update #2…

In May, we published, “Mural artist update for Canadian artist Michelle Loughery.” Loughery is the Canadian artist who helped Viva Cuba begin the Cuba, MO mural project. Michelle Loughery’s latest commission in Vernon, Canada is pictured in this article. A look at this mural will show a similarity in style to some of Cuba, Mo’s [...]

Area kids show off their art…Read the CFP article…

May 7 & 8, area art students show off their art at Wallace House in Cuba, MO during the GVC Art Show. The display is open to the public. Read the details, in this Cuba Free Press article. The Cuba High School art teacher is Shelly Smith Steiger, a Cuba High School gradate and Viva [...]

Cuba, MO mural artist teaches a new generation…

Another in a series of Viva Cuba’s mural artist updates for 2010… Artist Michelle “Shelly” Smith Steiger’s life has come full circle in many ways. A hometown girl, she graduated from Cuba High School in 1986 when Camille Ogden was her art teacher. Now, she holds the position that Camille Ogden held as the CHS [...]

Updates from Cuba, Missouri Route 66 Mural City…videos, murals, magazines, and more

AMELIA EARHART DVD Finally, after looking for the Amelia DVD about flyer Amelia Earhart for awhile, my husband ran across it at Mace’s Grocery and brought it home. It was an enjoyable movie that dealt with Earhart’s (Hilary Swank) conflict between her marketing duties to fund her aviation projects and her desire to spend her time [...]

Signs of the times in Cuba, Missouri…

Some Cuba, Missouri businesses embrace public art signage as a means of advertising even though they do not have one of Viva Cuba’s official murals on their business. I must admit that when Dan Sanazaro, owner of the World’s Largest Rocking Chair and the Fanning 66 Outpost General Store, told me that local artist John [...]

Coming October 23…Amelia returns!

Amelia Earhart first visited Cuba, Missouri 81 years ago. Soon she will return to the Cuba area–with a little help from Hollywood. According to a Muskogee Times Democrat newspaper article, on September 4, 1928, Amelia Earhart came to Cuba. The article said that she left Scott Field in Belleville, Illinois in her 1927 Avro Avian [...]

Old photographs inspire murals and preservation…

A.J. Barnett took family and friends for rides in the Cuba’s first Model T. Photographs evoke memories, remind us of times gone by, and contribute to the preservation of history. Peoples Bank wished to commemorate its 1ooth anniversary in 2001 with Cuba’s first outdoor mural. The two photos above would inspire that mural. The first [...]

Sometimes we have to re-beautify: repainting, lighting, & other mural maintenance

Cuba, Missouri When a mural is painted, that is only half the job. Mural maintenance is ongoing. There is always something that needs a touchup of paint. Problems develop and have to be addressed. The Viva Cuba Project works with our mural artists to keep the murals in good shape. It is necessary to coordinate [...]

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