Barnegat Light’s Wildflowers boutique and gallery owner Cricket Luker, advocate for the arts and animal rights, has a new idea for a community art project that would celebrate local historic properties and promote preservation efforts, by having artists paint portraits of old buildings to be installed seasonally somewhere in the town.
VISIONARY: Wildflowers’ Cricket Luker (above) in 2013 coordinated the creation of the portrait gallery at the dog park. She hopes to get a similar project going to immortalize Barnegat Light’s historic buildings. (File Photo)
The concept is “Preserving Our History Through Art,” Luker explained. She brought the idea before the borough council at the regular meeting of April 9 and asked…
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