Downtown Greenville Mural Project

The committee of Main Street Greenville’s Downtown Greenville Mural Project is working to bring diverse public art to enhance and enliven our downtown landscape. While the unique history and heritage of Greenville is important to this effort, bringing a sense of fun as well as beauty to our streets is also a goal. These public works of art encourage both residents and visitors to explore downtown and its many attractions. Grants, corporate sponsorships, and public participation are vital to the continuing success of the project.

Annie Oakley Mural at Sure Shot Tap House

Main Street Greenville’s Mural Committee installed a 20’ by 15’ contemporary digital mural of celebrated Darke County native Annie Oakley on the walls of Sure Shot Tap House. Three colorful images of the sharpshooter look out over YOLO Park in a mural created by Timothy Wells and installed by Joe Wintrow. Andrew Riffle, owner of Sure Shot Tap House, contributed funds in support of this installation.

Annie Oakley, born Phoebe Ann Mosey near North Star, Ohio, was an iconic star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, gaining international fame for her sharpshooting skills in the late nineteenth century. She died November 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, and her legendary life continues to be celebrated to this day.

Funding is provided by the Ohio Arts Council, Wintrow Signs, Fitzwater Tree & Lawn Care, the Darke County Endowment for the Arts, the Lydia E. Schaurer Memorial Trust Fund, the Darke County Foundation, the Ketrow Foundation, Timothy Wells Arts Consulting, and the City of Greenville.

Greetings From Downtown Greenville

This mural recreates a postcard sold in 1952 in downtown Greenville’s McClurg’s Book Store at 521 South Broadway. The postcard was created by Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. The image was discovered at Garst Museum, part of a collection created by long-time Greenville resident Kay Brown, then digitized and enlarged by Timothy Wells and printed on vinyl as a 20-foot by 50-foot mural by Joe Wintrow of Wintrow Signs and Designs. Reproductions of the ‘Greetings from Greenville’ design as a postcard are available at The Hive Collective on Broadway.

The letters of GREENVILLE each frame a local landmark: the U.S. Post Office, the Darke County Court House, the Monument of the Battle of Ft. Jefferson, the Greenville City Park lagoon, St. Clair Memorial Hall, the Greenville Public Library, the Greenville City Park windmill, Greenville Junior High/High School, and the Marling Band Shell.

Art is Power

The Greenville Mural Committee has powered up its plans for murals downtown. The first phase installs seven smaller ‘power box’ murals through the ‘Art is Power’ program, with larger wall murals to follow. The power box murals were installed in time for Main Street Greenville’s First Friday Artisan Stroll, produced as digital prints on vinyl with the help of Joe Wintrow of Wintrow Signs.