The Tennessee Riverwalk and Chattanooga’s public art are undoubtedly two of the area’s jewels.
Sites where the two mix, such as at the riverwalk’s Wheland Foundry Pass, are especially appealing.
What’s not so appealing is graffiti, which vandals have applied in recent weeks to the public art at the pass.
The answer, at least for now, is more public art.
Dozens of volunteers worked Saturday to cover over the graffiti with a painted landscape meant to symbolize the mountains of East Tennessee. And the paint will have an anti-graffiti coating, which will make it easier to clean if vandals choose to tag the new art.