Not for Ontario is the cautious, gradual, one mural at a time approach to public art. On blank walls downtown, a blitz of murals is going up this week — all at once.

On Monday, painters were at work on facades, back walls and alleys.

“We have 13 murals going on,” organizer Mia Melle told me.

Thirteen? I’d heard it would be 10.

“We had 10,” Melle said with a smile. “It’s expanded.”

Note to Spinal Tap: Ontario has cranked it to 13.

The effort is called O-Town Walls Muralfest , its $100,000 budget funded by corporate and civic donors. (The former boy band O-Town is not among them.)

Thirteen painters were enlisted. Some are local. Others are from the East Coast. They were given carte blanche, to a point. Concepts had to be approved, and religion and politics were out.

Other than th

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