More public art in Cuba, MO….

Artist Ray Harvey points out a detail in his painting at the Memory Center Community.

Cuba, MO will soon have even more public art. For a small town of 3500, there’s an abundance of art both inside and outside. One of the offshoots of the  Viva Cuba’s Mural Project is that the community has embraced art in a big way.

Missouri rtist Ray Harvey is no stranger to Cuba’s art scene. He painted both the Bette Davis mural and the History at the 4-Way murals on the Phillips 66 Station. He painted the mural on My Place Tires and has painted both inside and outside the Catholic Church.

Harvey has three murals inside the Victorian Manor Assisted Living Facility.  The owner of Victorian Manor John Paul Quick first met Harvey as he was painting at the Phillips 66 Station. He told him that he was interested in having Harvey do some murals in a new assisted living facility that they were building in Cuba. The Quicks liked his work in their Cuba Victorian Manor and had Harvey paint more murals in their Victorian Manors in St. Clair and Sullivan.

Quick and his wife Nancy are now building their first Alzheimers’s facility called the Victorian Manor Memory Center Community in Cuba. Harvey is again painting murals throughout the Center to make it a warmer, more interesting place for the residents to live.

When the Center is finished in a couple of months, we will photograph all the murals for posting on our website under the Other Public Art link.  Then Harvey will be off to Washington, Missouri to paint murals in two Senior Housing Centers and another Alzheimer’s Facility.

See Other Public Art in Cuba, MO here.  This is art in Cuba, MO outside the Viva Cuba Mural Project, including the work of Ray Harvey.

Read “Bette Davis visits Cuba, MO” here

Read “Before and after images tell the tale of restoration in Cuba, MO” here, which tells about the restoration of the Phillips 66 Station and its murals.