Will Heron’s Intergalacti mural along McKinney Avenue at Bowen Street. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) Artist Will Heron painted an LGBTQ-themed mural in Uptown DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com In the early 1990s, when developers began buying properties along McKinney Avenue, they complained about just one thing: They couldn’t market these new buildings because they were in Oak Lawn.
So the developers came up with a new name for the portion of Oak Lawn east of the Katy railroad tracks, soon to be the Katy Trail — Uptown.
The gay bars and restaurants had already closed. And the queer antique store owners were pushed out of the neighborhood. But now, Meow Wolf has hired Will Heron, who also goes by the shortened Wheron, to reclaim some of Uptown’s queer past.
Meow Wolf is an arts company based in Santa Fe, N.M., that has branched into the Dallas area. Opening this summer in Grapevine Mills Mall will be an interactive experience featuring works by 30 Texas artists.