Eugene has hired local artists to decorate its boring traffic control cabinets.
Eugene has hired local artists to decorate its boring traffic control cabinets.
Altogether, the city will have paid four artists a total of $5,400 for their work, said Isaac Marquez, the city’s public art manager. The artists received $300 per small box and $500 for each large one.
The painted boxes are the latest step in a continuing effort to bring public art downtown — even while municipal government faces a serious budget problem.
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