Joe Walsh Mural at the Water Street Tavern

Joe Walsh Mural at the Water Street Tavern The "Welcome To Kent"/ Joe Walsh Mural is located on the side of the Water Street Tavern building pa

The "Welcome To Kent" / Joe Walsh Mural was completed in June 2015 and hand painted by Scot Phillips of 25th & Lincoln Mural and Design Company with the help of Erin Meyers. Joe Walsh's musical notoriety started right here in Kent, OH and he has continued to keep in touch with many of his close friends in the area and has returned for numerous concerts, events, and charitable endeavors over the ye

ars. Kent, Ohio has a rich musical history that deserves to be celebrated! Special Thanks to Main Street Kent for their financial contribution, to Metis Construction for use of the scaffolding, and to Patrick Shanley for his prep work to get the space ready to paint. We're excited to celebrate one of our own and contribute what we hope to be an iconic image synonymous with entering downtown Kent for decades to come.

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Check out this interesting history, with never-before-seen photos, of Joe Walsh's time in Kent by our friend Jason Prufe...
10/11/2018

Check out this interesting history, with never-before-seen photos, of Joe Walsh's time in Kent by our friend Jason Prufer

By Jason Prufer I can't tell you how many times throughout my life that the name Joe Walsh has come up. By the 1980s when I was coming of a...

Check out this feature of the Joe Walsh mural in next month's Kent State University Alumni Association Magazine!
08/26/2015

Check out this feature of the Joe Walsh mural in next month's Kent State University Alumni Association Magazine!

What appears to be an enlarged black and white photograph of Joe Walsh on the side of the brick Water Street Tavern building in downtown Kent is actually a hand-painted work of art. Created by local artist Scot Phillips, ‘08 and his assistant Erin Meyer, the 9’ x 13’ mural is composed of painted “do…

Joe Walsh Mural getting some love on Page 2 of today's Plain Dealer!
07/16/2015

Joe Walsh Mural getting some love on Page 2 of today's Plain Dealer!

07/14/2015

Northeast Ohio is honoring its homegrown musical heroes. Just weeks after the City of Akron announced plans for a life-sized Devo mural, an enormous wall-sized mural of legendary rocker Joe Walsh was unveiled in Kent on Fourth of July weekend.

The making of the Joe Walsh Mural...in convenient video form!
07/14/2015

The making of the Joe Walsh Mural...in convenient video form!

Introducing the "Welcome To Kent" Joe Walsh Mural at the Water Street Tavern! Completed on July 2, 2015, the mural was hand painted by Scot Phillips of 25th ...

07/05/2015
Photos of the recently completed Joe Walsh mural at the Water Street Tavern. Photos by the mural artist on the project- ...
07/02/2015

Photos of the recently completed Joe Walsh mural at the Water Street Tavern. Photos by the mural artist on the project- Scot Phillips.

Metis Construction removed their scaffolding and Stephanie Starkey took the first set of photos of the new Joe Walsh mur...
07/02/2015

Metis Construction removed their scaffolding and Stephanie Starkey took the first set of photos of the new Joe Walsh mural in downtown Kent.

06/30/2015

Like the Joe Walsh Mural? Make sure to check out 25th & Lincoln- Mural & Design Company. They are the artists who painted him!

"Specializing in hand-painted halftone."

Mural is finished! Just the coating is left. Watch out for the reveal soon!
06/30/2015

Mural is finished! Just the coating is left. Watch out for the reveal soon!

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