{"id":80594,"date":"2020-08-15T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=80594"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:42:16","slug":"new-basketball-court-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2020\/08\/15\/new-basketball-court-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"New basketball court mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2020\/08\/14: New Andre Portee Basketball Court mural\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PsbVPZg_ruc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation news release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>New Basketball Court Mural Unveiled at Carl O\u2019Neal Memorial Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(August 13, 2020) \u2013 The Fort Wayne City Utilities and Parks and Recreation departments have partnered with local artist Andre Portee to create a new mural project on the basketball court of Carl O\u2019Neal Memorial Park which sits adjacent to a Three Rivers Water Filtration Plant pump station.<\/p>\n<p>The park is named for Carl O\u2019Neal, the longtime City transportation engineering director who oversaw years of flood fighting, including the great flood of 1982.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carl O&#8217;Neal is a legend with his leadership and dedication in the community. We&#8217;re glad to see the beautiful enhancement to the park in the form of this creative basketball court,&#8221; said Matthew Wirtz, Deputy Director of Engineering for City Utilities. &#8220;It&#8217;s fitting that the court sits in Carl&#8217;s park on the Morton Street Pump Station grounds, a facility that&#8217;s been instrumental, for nearly 100 years, in pumping large volumes of water away from the Northside Neighborhood to fight floods. We are proud to welcome the community to this beautiful new basketball court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80596\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andre_Portee.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Portee\" width=\"690\" height=\"690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andre_Portee.jpg 690w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andre_Portee-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andre_Portee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Andre_Portee-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local artist Andre Portee who has created a new mural on the basketball court of the Carl O&#8217;Neal Memorial Park. Photo courtesy of the City of Fort Wayne.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Portee raised the funds for the mural project through Kickstarter\u2014a funding platform for creative projects\u2014and brought together a small team to do the work. Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation also installed new backboards and rims on the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been involved in the Fort Wayne art scene as a photographer, and I\u2019m trying to see if I can expand and make a direct impact with art in Fort Wayne,\u201d Andre said. \u201cI had an idea to do a larger art installation in the city, found the right partners to make it happen, and we\u2019re really excited to bring something new to Fort Wayne with this community art piece.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/92357.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"City of Fort Wayne Utilities Director Kumar Menon during the Light Lease press conference on June 1, 2009.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='419e0d7ee57581fd87daf4b387640254' data-image-id=\"2012\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/92357.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_92357.jpg\" data-title=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\" data-description=\"City of Fort Wayne Utilities Director Kumar Menon during the Light Lease press conference on June 1, 2009.\">\n\t\t\t<img title=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"2009\/06\/02: Kumar Menon\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"2012\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/cityoffw\/thumbs\/thumbs_92357.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/bc\/93635.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Parks and Recreation Director, Al Moll, speaks during the McCulloch Park rededication.  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