Tag Archives: murals in Wisconsin
Henry Vilas Zoo Visitor Center, Madison WI
Henry Vilas Zoo Creature Corner & Giraffes, Madison WI
News at Eleven
I’ve been interviewed for local TV newscasts on a number of jobs. As I mentioned in my Mostly True Tale, Why They Call It Windows, I’ve recently been editing some of these videos for this website. Here are the news interviews uploaded so far gathered together in one place. Continue reading
Where’s Pauldo?
It all started while on my first zoo job at the Milwaukee County Zoo. They asked me to paint lichen on a tree trunk in a rhino hornbill exhibit in the aviary. While I was making the green-and-gray blobs, I realized one of them looked sort of like a silhouette of a person, so I added a tall collar and a pompadour and, voila — Elvis! Continue reading
Racine Zoo, Racine WI
Milwaukee County Zoo Lion House, Milwaukee WI
Milwaukee County Zoo Australian Building, Milwaukee WI
Milwaukee County Zoo Apes of Africa, Milwaukee WI
Henry Vilas Zoo Small Mammals, Madison WI
Henry Vilas Zoo Train Tunnel, Madison WI
Henry Vilas Zoo Aviary, Madison WI
Henry Vilas Zoo Carousel Building, Madison WI
Boomer
The Milwaukee County Zoo was my first, and remains one of my most loyal, zoo clients. In 1992, they asked me to paint murals in their Australia building. The hallway called for a “sunset over the Outback” mural about 9 feet tall by 124 feet long. Windows looking into the animal exhibits were located in the opposite wall. Beyond that stretched 124 feet of exhibit wall on which they wanted a mural that transitioned from arid Outback at one end to deep rainforest at the other. Continue reading
