11 Apr Mural Art Beautifies Shipping Container at Columbia Gardens
KENNEWICK, Wash. – Port of Kennewick has transformed the outside of a shipping container-turned restroom at Columbia Gardens Wine & Artisan Village into public art.
A team with Mustang Signs installed vinyl wraps featuring colorful floral imagery designed by P.S. Media on the repurposed container’s exterior walls.
Yellow floret and white puffball dandelions sweep across the container’s north wall facing the waterfront. Muralist Cameron Milton (MeltingMiltons.com) added finish touches, including painting an electrical conduit attached to the container transforming it into a large-scale stem. That single dandelion is positioned so people can stand alongside it and “make a wish” by pretending to blow away the pappus fluff.
The south wall facing Columbia Drive features stylized images of Heliopsis False Sunflowers. The other container walls showcase vibrant images of Gaillardia Blanket Flowers (east side) and Black-Eyed Susans (west side) donated by local artist and photographer Victor Hubbard.
“The port has identified public art as an essential element of economic development,” said Tim Arntzen, Port of Kennewick CEO. “The previously stark white container offered a perfect canvas to upscale a highly visible yet mundane industrial box, bringing new artwork to the wine and artisan village.”
The container art joins the Mid-Columbia Latino Heritage Mural, Aspirations sculpture, Rolling Mass bus shelter and three utility-box art wrap installations at Columbia Gardens, located at 325 E. Columbia Gardens Way in Kennewick.
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Port of Kennewick is an economic development entity focused on developing assets to create sustainable family-wage jobs, build infrastructure and user-friendly transportation systems and enhance the quality of life within the port district.
