Willow Friday paints angel wings Wednesday at the Urban Art Gallery at the former A&B Sound building at the corner of Commercial Street and Terminal Avenue. (CHRIS BUSH/The News Bulletin)

Willow Friday paints angel wings Wednesday at the Urban Art Gallery at the former A&B Sound building at the corner of Commercial Street and Terminal Avenue. (CHRIS BUSH/The News Bulletin)

Downtown mural gallery gets its wings

Painting continuing at Urban Art Gallery at the former A&B Sound building

The Urban Art Gallery is taking flight as the mural project continues downtown.

Willow Friday, owner of Iron Oxide Art Supplies, was at the old A&B Sound building Wednesday painting a wings mural as part of the Humanity in Art project.

RELATED: First Urban Art Gallery mural has been added to A&B Sound building

The exterior walls of the building have been repurposed by Nanaimo’s arts community as a canvas for local artists participating in the city’s first mural gallery, created to help revitalize the section of downtown.

Nanaimo News Bulletin