Painting for Pride
dallasvoice.comDaniel Yanez puts the finishing touches on the mural he painted on the outside wall of TMC. The image, Yanez said, is meant to honor his LGBTQ daughter and the LGBTQ community as a whole. (Photo above courtesy of Caven Enterprises) Artist creates new Cedar Springs mural with his daughter in mind RICH LOPEZ | Staff writerrich@dallasvoice.com Recent passersby may have noticed the mural quickly taking shape on the street-facing wall of TMC on Cedar Springs at Reagan Street.
Or perhaps to others, the bright colors of the rainbow appeared there just all of a sudden in finished form. In just more than a week’s time, artist Daniel Yanez painted this Prideful mural.
The mural was commissioned by Caven Enterprises. But what they didn’t know when they commissioned it was Yanez’s own connection to the community. “They had found me, and I went down to meet with them, and they told me they had this wall,” Yanez said by phone from his new home in Red Oak. “I don’t think they had an idea, though, of my own story.” (Photo courtesy of Chad Mantooth) Yanez was told that Caven wanted something reflective of the neighborhood, something that could help bring the community together.
Caven CEO Mike Nguyen explained that Yanez’s work came to them by way of PegasusAblon who recommended a group of local artists.
