At this time, 1998 in Chapel Hill, there was a mural by Michael Brown taking shape half a block down Franklin Street from the Ackland on one wall of the alleyway that leads from the street into campus. Brown, whose murals include the giant pencil on Henderson Street, the sea turtles on North Columbia, and the 'cave paintings' in the town parking garage, has based his latest design on the work of an earlier Chapel Hill artist, William Meade Prince.
There was a large drawing in this exhibition that was made for the Southern Part of Heaven, Prince's memoir about growing up in Chapel Hill at the turn of the century. Brown and his assistant Cassio Lynm created a similar procession, filled with allusions to the town and the University of North Carolina, past and present.