The Children’s Place Inspired, Lockton Loved, Hallmark Designed and Jet Pack Painted
A big white wall, overlooking a colorful playground. In the early days of the design of our new building, our architectural team planted the seed for our dream, identifying that this would be the perfect place for a mural.
Now years later, thanks to the collaboration of so many talented and generous people, a vibrant mural was completed in the spring of 2023.
Hallmark Corporate Foundation, a longtime corporate partner of The Children’s Place, approached us early in the process and was eager to be a part of this mural project. Hallmark helped identify one of their artists, Matt Kesler, to help design the mural.
Matt had designed murals before for Children’s Mercy and other organizations, but there was one differentiator with this project.
“I’ve never done a mural this big ever,” he told us. “The largest mural I’ve designed is maybe half of this size, and that was with a team. But I love this space—the size of it and how open it is, so that was an exciting part of the project.”
… Read more on the Mural page of our website.
