Ours to Tell

Artist: Royal Crown Student's - Guided by Francine Freeman

Royal Crown Academic School 4620 Finch Ave E, Toronto, ON M1S 4G2

A week spent with the art class of Royal Crown School inspiring some amazing students to create change, and inspire others. The three people are to represent the past (Harriet Tubman), the present (Obama) and the future (RCS Student’s), with a mirror in the center to show that it doesn’t take someone historic or famous to create change. Look in the mirror, YOU are the future of the black community!

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Kingsway Community Event Mural

Artist: Kris Friesen

11001 Kingsway NW Edmonton, AB T5G 2T4

This planned public event mural was painted in one day by volunteers from the Kingsway district of Edmonton, including softball players, police, local business reps, and passers by.
The Edmonton Kingsway BIA commisioned the mural as a giant paint by numbers where anyone could help paint. The group came together and completed the wall in just a few active hours.

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Rowntree Mills Pathway mural

Artist: Khaula Siddique

Rowntree Mills Park, 155 Rowntree Mill Rd, North York, ON M9L 2K1

This mural was painted through community consultation with Arts Etobicoke and four other mural artists; Yusra Mukhtar, Kaya Joan, Moises Frank and Hemangi Shroff (Please see their profiles for their part of the mural).
The mural was painted using outdoor exterior acrylic paints. The picnic blanket, the fruit basket and the hint of the Mad Hatter’s tea party are part of the theme of inviting the community to a welcoming space, to share each other’s company, good food and a little bit of magic.

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By Ric Gendron

Artist: Ric Gendron

685 Baker St, Nelson, BC V1L 4J3

This mural was created by Ric Gendron and assistants in 2022 on the side of Pharmasave Nelson.

“Ric Gendron is a “paint slinger” who creates expressive artworks that blend traditional Indigenous imagery with bold colors fields. As a member of the Arrow Lakes Band (Sinixt), he creates expressionist, strikingly colorful images that chronicle his experience, memory, history, journeys and identity. Gendron studied art at Cornish College of the Arts, the Eastern Washington University and in 1983 received his art degree from Spokane Falls Community College.”

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The Junction – Pollination Street Art

Artist: Francine Freeman & High school Art Students

The Junction - Dundas Street West and Keele (4 corners), Dundas and Pacific (3 corners), Toronto, ON

Myself and my art students spent our end of semester creating sidewalk street art in The Junction consisting of flowers, bees and butterflies at 7 street corners.

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Five murals displayed on a sunny day at the Toronto Zoo. The murals are of realistically painted individuals emerging from pink, purple and blue flowers, as well as abstractly painted shrubbery.

In Our Nature

Artist: The E.W.O.C. Project, Claire Browne, Connie Tong, and Sarah Alinia Ziazi

Toronto Zoo, 2000 Meadowvale Rd, Toronto, Scarborough, ON M1B 5K7, Canada

*Please note: this was a temporary mural installation.
In our Nature is a community-minded multidisciplinary public art project that celebrates Women of Colour in the Scarborough community through five mural panel installations and musical performances. The murals will spotlight BIPOC women in Scarborough, who are active in community work, and feature them in a green space, changing the narrative around this group’s access, perceived safety and sense of belonging in public spaces. The artwork will purposefully degrade over time to reveal the underset images of the featured individuals beneath the greenery – their faces will be seen emerging from the ground. This is a 2021 City of Toronto Cultural Hotspot Signature Project in partnership with Mural Routes, the E.W.O.C. Project, the Community Arts Guild and the Toronto Zoo.

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