Click to enlarge. Photo for thegazz.com by Mark Wolfe

Guest photoblogger Mark Wolfe offers the first of a series of photos documenting a new 20-by-30-foor East End mural that is a community development project of the East End Main Street Program's Design Committee. Rob Cleland, an artist with a studio above the Bluegrass Kitchen, is painting the mural on the side of the building at the corner of Elizabeth and Washington streets, across from the New China restaurant.

A $6,000 grant (raised through the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, the Governor's Community Partnership Grant, the Charleston Area Alliance and private donations) calls for the mural to be done by the end of July. Which is why Cleland can be found up on mini-crane most days until 3 p.m., when he's got some kid duties, and then back there after dinner by about 6 p.m

~ thegazz.com editor