Making a Friends of Sligo Creek Sign for Takoma Park

In 2002 the City of Takoma Park put out a call for decorative posters to be placed around the construction site for the new municipal building. Artists, children's groups and citizens were encouraged to help hide the unsightly hole in front of the old municipal building on one of the city's main streets. No one thought to consult the construction company, who disallowed the erection of signs around their site. Thus the many contributed signs line the city parking area behind the old municipal building and the library. Marty Ittner of Friends of Sligo Creek is a Takoma Park artist and graphic designer. Her work in creating a Takoma Park poster for Friends of Sligo Creek is documented in the following photographs. This poster occupies the prime location for the relocated posters - at the entrance to the police station at the back of the old municipal building. Thank you, Marty Ittner In 2005 the Takoma Park Community Center was completed and the slightly weathered sign needed to be removed from its position behind the community center. See Friends of Sligo Creek Mural in Sligo Creek Elementary School to see what transpired.

Screenprinting the "Friends of Sligo Creek" type in white Time to clean the screen! Lining up "Sligo Creek" type--serves as a placement device for the screen. After screenprinting type, some broken letters are touched up with a brush. Photographer Stan Barouh shows off the finished panels at Pyramid Atlantic. Unveiling day: March 20th. Panels in place in front of the Municpal center back entrance.