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Area residents will have the unique opportunity to put their artistic stamp on a MetroBus during a special bus painting event being hosted by Metro Arts in Transit (AIT) on Sept. 26 as part of the 2009 Green Homes Festival. The event is being presented by Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center and Missouri Coalition for the Environment. From noon to 2 p.m., a MetroBus decorated with outline drawings depicting ways to “live the green life” will be stationed in front of the EarthWays Center green homes building located at 3617 Grandel Square.

Event attendees will have the chance to bring the bus drawings to life by coloring them with paint provided by Metro Arts in Transit. The basic paint by numbers approach makes the process easy enough that even children can participate.

Once painted, the EarthWays Center Green Homes Festival bus will become the latest to join Metro Arts in Transit’s fleet of community art busses. The busses are ordinary fleet vehicles which are designed by artists who paint them with the assistance of members of the community. This collaborative effort transforms the busses into works of art on the move that operate as part of Metro’s everyday fleet.

To learn more about Metro Arts in Transit, visit www.artsintransit.org or call (314) 982-1412. For more information about the Green Homes Festival, visit www.greenhomesstl.org or call (314) 577-0220

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