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Tim Bohen, Michael Shea, The
Improbable Entertainer
Vibrant Buffalo mural
2196 Seneca Street, Buffalo NY
By Justin Suarez
July 2020 photos ... Text beneath photos
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Partial reprint The non-profit behind the new Seneca Street mural has more plans to make the area vibrant By Kaley Lynch WIVB.com, July 27, 2020 A colorful new mural on Seneca Street in South Buffalo is attracting plenty of attention. Rochester-based mural artist Justin Suarez created the “Vibrant Buffalo” mural on the side of Buffalo Jewelry and Loan, 2196 Seneca Street. He wrapped up work on the piece on Friday. “People were beeping their car horns all day to say hi, giving us complements on it,” Suarez said. The process took about ten days. Suarez, who has been creating artwork with spray paint since he was 17, was commissioned by the Coalition for a Vibrant Seneca Street to create the piece. The mural was made possible through a grant funded by the Buffalo Billion’s Better Buffalo Fund. Suarez worked with the Coalition on the design, which includes a large bison, an “A W Bartlett Cash Grocery” horse-drawn cart, and the Shea’s Seneca sign. “We were trying to represent some of the history of Seneca Street with a little more of an urban art element to it,” Suarez said. |
 Photo source: Emily Hessney Lynch, Justin Suarez  Photo source: Emily Hessney Lynch, Justin Suarez  Photo source: Emily Hessney Lynch, Justin Suarez |
