Project Overview

Welcome to Westwood | Raines Road

“The artist incorporated the community feedback into her design.”

Memphis artist Christine Conley collaborated with representatives of the Westwood Neighborhood Association to create an original mural on the retaining wall on Raines Road near Weaver Street. Her design features Memphis iconography and images that specifically represent their neighborhood – its landmarks and history.

About the Artist

Christine Conley

Christine Conley is a Memphis, TN painter and mixed media artist who has exhibited extensively and whose work is represented by the Jay Etkin Gallery. She brings great knowledge of working with the community and with youth as her background includes work as a teaching artist in the Center for Arts Education Summer Institute of the Greater Memphis Arts Council, and previous public art commissions include serving as lead artist and project manager for a mural project at Farmington Road Elementary School. In addition to working as an artist, Conley was also a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis. She is now a part-time art professor at the University of Ottawa.