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Join a “grand opening” on Saturday, April 26, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Solana Beach Post Office, 153 S. Sierra Ave. Mayor Lesa Heebner, Solana Beach City Council members and artist Kevin Anderson will snip a ribbon and formally dedicate nine new murals adorning the interior Post Office walls.
The board of directors of the Solana Beach Civic & Historical Society commissioned the murals after the Post Office interior was repainted. “For more than 70 years, our organization’s mission has been to support civic education and the beautification of our community,” noted the Society’s president Jolene Dodson Bogard in a news release. “The freshly painted walls provided a canvas for furthering those goals. After Postmaster Richard Zamora okayed the project, Kevin Anderson was the obvious artist for the job.”
Anderson is a Solana Beach native whose captivating murals already are prominent throughout San Diego County and Southern California. Anderson and the Society chose a selection of iconic Solana Beach sites for the murals. Anderson knows them all, having grown up on nearby Glenmont Drive and being a regular among the surfers at Pillbox, aka Fletcher Cove beach.
The scenes include beach and bluff-side views, as well as underwater sea-life based on Anderson’s memories of his many hours in the ocean. There also are depictions of Fletcher Cove Park, the downtown Plaza area, and a montage of images honoring the city’s founding neighborhood of La Colonia de Eden Gardens.
Anderson’s art education began at San Dieguito High (now San Dieguito Academy). He attended Palomar College and Long Beach State University, majoring in art. Anderson commuted to Long Beach on Mondays and returned on Fridays, sleeping in his camper in campus parking lots on weekday evenings.
He specializes in murals — some of them massive — that now adorn interior and exterior walls throughout Southern California. His works include a colossal 72-foot-long, 270-degree mural in a pedestrian tunnel in the Civita community in Mission Valley. In 2020, he painted four large murals on exterior walls of the Gateway Business Center building at I-5 and Lomas Santa Fe Dr. in Solana Beach. His work also graces an interior wall in the Encinitas Library, as well as exterior home and building walls in Cardiff and further north in Manhattan Beach, the news release stated.
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The Solana Beach Civic & Historical Society is a non-profit community organization founded in 1953 as the Women’ Civic Club of Solana Beach. Learn more at .
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