Local art greets shoppers in the Zanesville Kroger

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – The Zanesville Kroger on Maple Avenue now has local artwork on display to greet customers into the store. A large print of Mary Ann Bucci’s Y-bridge painting is on display in front entrance of the grocery store with a framed caption below discussing the history and creation of the artwork that Bucci made in 1998.

“Thank you very much for putting this up here. I’m really quite lucking and I want to represent all the artists that don’t get a chance maybe to be as visible as I have been,” said Bucci.

The original painting resides in the Zanesville Museum of Art and has been made into thousands of prints, postcards, calendars, magnets and posters. The recreation hanging in the Kroger entryway was produced by Mike and Tina Nelson who expanded it to fit a 4 by 6 feet frame.

“Well we had a blank wall and we really had a need for something out here and Mary Ann and I talked one day in the store and we kind of brain stormed as to what potentially we could do and she came up with the Y-Bridge theme,” said Terry Barker, human resources and assistant store leader. “She loves the Zanesville community and the meaning behind the Y-Bridge and the whole history behind it and that was just a natural fit. So it took us a few months to come to a final agreement about what we were going to do or a final plan but this is the end result and I couldn’t be happier.”

Mary Ann Bucci and her husband Ron have been life long residents of the Zanesville community and have also created challenge coins with the Y-Bridge painting on it available at the Stone Academy through Muskingum County History.