More than 200 San Marcos-area residents turned out for workshops over the weekend to assemble their own square foot of the tile mosaic murals Austin artist J. Muzacz designed for the Downtown Mobility Hub at 214 E. Hutchison St.
Muzacz and his team of assistants provided printouts of color grids to volunteers of all ages on Saturday at the San Marcos Library and on Sunday at the Price Center to guide them as they chose tiles from a “tile buffet” to place into a plastic grid. These grids will become part of the 228 squares that form the murals. Participants could refer to a numbered reference of the murals to find out where their square would fit into the final murals.
“We’re gonna have more than 40 or 50,000 tiles in this thing, so we can install it by square feet. Muzacz said. “Everybody’s laying out 225 tiles per square foot.”
