Patterson Plumage is a bird themed work of traffic calming pavement art located at the entrance to Baltimore’s Patterson Park at Baltimore and Linwood Streets. The Patterson Park Neighborhood Association and Southeast CDC partnered with Graham Projects on the installation to improve pedestrian safety by increasing visibility and park access through a vibrant pavement mural inspired by community input. The artwork design is a collaboration between Graham Projects and artist Nicole Buccholz of Sol Raya Public Space.
Patterson Park is home to the Audubon Center, which serves as a local leader in nature-based education, urban bird conservation, and community revitalization. The Patterson Plumage design celebrates the park’s birds through giant, vibrant geometric feathers spreading across each bump out in teal, blue, fuschia, orange, and yellow. Three more feathers create a central meeting point at the park’s corner entry that playfully combine into a giant bird foot.
Following a community-led design process and neighborhood-wide online vote identifying Patterson Plumage as the community’s preferred design, Graham Projects installed the artwork in the spring of 2024. Residents helped contribute to the project during a community paint day held on April 13, 2024. After unrelated utility work was completed at the northwest corner of the intersection, Graham Projects completed the artwork in June 2024.
This community project led by the Patterson Park Neighborhood Association was funded by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development via the Southeast Community Development Corporation.
