A design shows what a new Pikesville mural by Jaz and Doron Erenberg will look like once it is completed. The mural, titled "Echoes of Resilience," will be painted across the street from the Pikesville public library and the Maryland State Police headquarters. Image courtesy Jaz Erenberg.
A design shows what a new Pikesville mural by Jaz and Doron Erenberg will look like once it is completed. The mural, titled "Echoes of Resilience," will be painted across the street from the Pikesville public library and the Maryland State Police headquarters. Image courtesy Jaz Erenberg.

Baltimore-based muralist Jaz Erenberg is bringing her talents to Baltimore County.

Erenberg, an Afro-Latina artist known for enlivening communities with her colorful public art, started work this week on the Pikesville Community Mural, the first publicly-funded and juried mural in that area.

“The mural is themed around Pikesville’s natural beauty and history and is titled Echoes of Resilience,” the artist said in an email message. She’s painting it alongside her husband, Doron Erenberg, on the side of a commercial building at 1220 Reisterstown Road, across the street from the Pikesville public library and the Maryland State Police headquarters in the heart of Pikesville.

Muralist Jaz Erenberg stands in the doorway of her Upper Fells home, where she has been painting a colorful, tropical plant mural this summer. Photo courtesy of Jaz Erenberg.

The project is being coordinated by 1,000 Friends of Pikesville Inc. with support from the Northwest Baltimore Partnership; Greater Baltimore Chamber of Commerce; Pikesville Revitalization Action Plan Committee; and Baltimore County Government.

Erenberg is a 2017 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art and a member of Baltimore’s Public Art Commission. Her murals can be seen in Station North; Belair-Edison; Sandtown-Winchester; Cherry Hill; Highlandtown; Ednor Gardens and on her own house in Upper Fells Point.

The Pikesville mural will be 45 feet long and 13 feet high.  Erenberg is aiming to complete it by May 25.

Ed Gunts is a local freelance writer and the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun.