{"id":442746,"date":"2025-12-12T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:02:19","slug":"new-90-foot-mural-unveiled-under-the-fuller-warren-bridge-home-to-the-riverside-arts-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442746\/","title":{"rendered":"New 90-foot mural unveiled under the Fuller Warren Bridge, home to the Riverside Arts Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 The Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) held a ceremony Friday morning to unveil a new mural on the JEA pump station, under the Fuller Warren Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The 90-foot mural was painted by Patrick Maxcy, who began to work on it on Oct. 20. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Maxcy has named his work of art \u201cAbundant Waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside Avondale Preservation and JEA selected Patrick Maxcy to do the job. (WJXT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gmg-wjxt-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/22\/artist-chosen-to-paint-new-mural-on-jea-pump-station-under-fuller-warren-bridge\/?ref=%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fafter-columbia-arrests-international-college-students-fall-silent%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/gmg-wjxt-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/22\/artist-chosen-to-paint-new-mural-on-jea-pump-station-under-fuller-warren-bridge\/?ref=%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fafter-columbia-arrests-international-college-students-fall-silent%2F\">News4JAX spoke to Maxcy back in October<\/a> and explained the vision he had for the beautiful masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cA lot of waves and things like that going on, but you will be able to see above the water and below the water in the St. Johns River,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are going to be a lot of local wildlife, such as alligators, manatees, local birds, fish. Some fun little hidden things, like flora and fauna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riversideavondale.org\/press\/ram-mural-patrick-maxcy-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/riversideavondale.org\/press\/ram-mural-patrick-maxcy-announcement\/\">The mural is on the JEA sewer pump station.<\/a> That facility collects sewage from the Riverside area and sends it to the JEA treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the new 90-foot mural under the Fuller Warren Bridge. (Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Greg Corcoran with JEA told News4JAX in October he knows a lot of people roam around the area due to things like the weekly Riverside Arts Market and consistent community events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For that reason, he wants the new art to provide a visual explanation of why the St. Johns River is important to the area and thinks Maxcy is the perfect person for the illustration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe hope that it will be like an \u2018Instagrammable\u2019 type of place where people will come get pictures of it,\u201d Corcoran said. \u201cIt really pops. You are really going to see from far away and from close up. There are going to be a lot of interesting details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) held a ceremony Friday morning to unveil a new mural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,14626,90726,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-442746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jea","13":"tag-ram","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115707677655992251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}