University City hopes that driving down Olive Boulevard will be like "driving through an art gallery," thanks in part to a new public art project.
Judy Prange, executive director for the nonprofit U City in Bloom, uses that phrase to describe her group's ongoing efforts — and particularly a project commissioning ten artists to paint utility boxes on the street, which will begin in the coming weeks.
Prange got the idea after speaking with the community development office of the city of Manchester, which had completed a similar project.
“They’re almost like canvases waiting to be painted,” Prange says of the utility boxes.…