| Jax Liquor Store: Don't Drink and Drive |
| Conceived from a dream, Frances approached Lisa Andrews, liquor store owner, with the concept of painting the consequences of drinking and driving on the facade of Jax. Family and Children Services, a non-profit agency that, among other things, houses teens who either have alcohol and/or drug problems or have parents that do, was interested in having teenagers from their group homes participate in this project. Other teens were selected from an application process. A team of twenty working with facillitators McDonald and Jeff Cannon, painted the walls for ten days in October 1999. The mural wraps the building and stretches into the parking lot creating a semi trompe l'oeil effect. A generous reformed alcoholic made a donation that was matched by an Arts in Education grant from Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga to create the $2500. budget. |
216 Market Street, CHA 37402
In 2005, the owners of Jax Liquor Store
ceded to the bank's demand to "look
more like a liquor store." They
subsequently painted over their mural,
much to neighborhood chagrin.
ceded to the bank's demand to "look
more like a liquor store." They
subsequently painted over their mural,
much to neighborhood chagrin.