On January 19, the Pontiac (IL) City Council presented Bill, Jane, Ben and Joe Diaz, the family that operates Pontiac-based Diaz Sign, with the Illinois Humanities Council’s Studs Terkel Award for its coordination of the Pontiac Walldog meet last June. Several sign-industry veterans and members of the Letterhead traditional-signmaking movement converged in Pontiac to create several beautiful, large-format, hand-rendered murals. The Humanities Council bestows the awards for volunteers who “demonstrate a sustained and significant contribution to furthering public understanding of the humanities in their community … through projects related to historic preservation, heritage, education and the study of arts or music.”
For more information about the event, go to http://www.signweb.com/content/chief-city-chic