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By Ric Gendron

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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Damian John created this mural on the Vernon Street retaining wall next to the Salvation Army (down the stairs) for the Nelson International Mural Festival in 2022.

“Damian loves art as a way of saying something, anything! It can be important, mundane, fantastic, colourful, terrible, quiet or loud. It is through this voice that he believes some of our most beautiful messages are relayed to one another. As such, he is always working to create story through his art in line, colour, and composition.”

Butterfly Effect

Jesse Campbell is a Métis visual artist and strength athlete. His ancestry comes from St. Boniface and Waterhen lake MB on his Moms side and from Scotland and England on his Dads. Jesse has been painting murals since 2010 and ditched a career in the sciences to work full-time in the arts in 2018.

“With the Butterfly Effect, we have these small reverberations that sort of magnify, and create a much bigger impact. And I think about that with species, and species loss. In this piece I want to sort of depict recollection, recollecting our place within the land, our past, and our tentative future. I do that by reintroducing these flowers and the native species that go with them.” – Jesse Campbell

A front facing view of the pi'tawita'iek mural.

pi’tawita’iek: we go up river

Size: 12×4 ft.; 3.6×1.2 m. This beautiful mural is visible from OCAD’s south-facing wall at 100 McCaul Street. Expanding the wall’s five doors (painted in a fantastic magenta with white circles, partially descending bars and green lines that extend like Ionic columns), the exposed brick is separated by light blue, downward-facing triangles to create the…

Daniels Mural Project

The Daniels Mural Project is an Indigenous-lead mural created by Que Rock and is located on the north-facing wall of 1 Spadina Cr., on the Daniels Building/Architecture faculty of the University of Toronto. The temporary mural by Que Rock, who is a member of Nipissing First Nation, honours the 215 children whose unmarked graves were discovered at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B.C., as well as the graves that continue to be discovered across Turtle Island.

Time to Heal; and truth before reconciliation

All four signal box locations explore Time in different ways; from traditional Chinese calligraphy with historical photos of Chinatown, and the history shared by Tsúùt’ínà artist about his ancestor Chief Bullhead and Fort Calgary, to stylised tigers inspired by the colours of Cantonese opera, to age-old medicinal remedies that have survived many generations, to contemporary Canto phraseology and street calligraphy.

The Wisdom Mural

The Wisdom Mural Project, installed on August 5th 2021, is a call to action to care for our planet. It was a two-year long journey, which sought to understand the depth to which ancestral teachings from Canada and around the world could strengthen our connection with and respect for Mother Nature.

Storytelling Mural and Healing Corridor

A collaboration between Monica Wickeler – artist/facilitator Nyle Miigizi Johnston -collaborating lead artist and youth mentor (Contemporary/Traditional storyteller/visual artist, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation).

Our Relations

“Our Relations” is a community-engaged sculpturesque mural in Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa that fused Indigenous and multicultural aesthetic representing the neighbourhood.

This was a collaboration between the lead artist Kseniya Tsoy, Anishnaabe artist Mark Seabrook and an installation artist Tito Medina, who are newcomer, Indigenous and refugee artists respectively.
This mural was funded by the Diversity in the Arts Program of the City of Ottawa and the Vanier BIA.

Weaving the future

Organizer: Oakwood village BIA
Sponsored by: Mural Routes, Steps Public Art
Measurements: 22’x54’
Theme: A Common Thread

Resilience

This mural was initiated by the Community Arts Guild in Scarborough. It was a community mosaic project led by Cristina Delago with youth from Scarborough and youth from S.A.G.E. Group.
It is a concrete building adjacent to the Cedar Ridge Community Centre. The mosaic covers the 3 main walls of the building.
Created in August of 2021.

Lansdowne Underpass Art Project

These artworks share first person perspective stories that speak to the rich ongoing history of the site as home to many diverse plant and animal species and cultural communities, beginning with the Indigenous peoples of Tkaronto and Turtle Island. The Lansdowne Underpass Art Project creates a collaborative artwork that honours this site by telling stories of those who have and continue to live on, play on, build community on, struggle on, learn from, grow in, paint, immigrate to, contribute to, and tend to this land.

Signal Box at Dundas St W and Howard Park Ave

To aboriginial peoples living by the water, the Lake Ontario salmon was sacred and an important part of their diet. The vision of the spirits of salmon on the box offersa reminder of the lake that lies nearby, and a moment to admire the magnificence of these creatures, who are returning home.

Roncesvalles

This mural replaced a romantic colonial scene with imagery that reflects the Indigenous roots of the area as well as the present urban community and vision for a sustainable future.

A blue-toned mural on a wall. Painted faces border a figure seated in front of a mountain range while five geese and an eagle fly overhead.

Remembering Spiritual Ancestry

Indigenous artist Randy Knott created this mural in honour of the Indigenous people who once inhabited or visited the area around the Scarborough Bluffs.

Augmented Representations: The North Etobicoke Mural Project

In the summer of 2019 Arts Etobicoke, Mural Routes, the STEPS Initiative, and Womxn Paint presented Augmented Representations: The North Etobicoke Mural Project. The project was a series of workshops and training with local community and artists, leading to a summer-long, collaborative mural project in North Etobicoke.

A mural depicting multiple multicoloured and abstractly created animals.

Piliriqatigiingniq

Piliriqatigiingniq is an unprecedented collaborative public artwork project by Cape Dorset, Nunavut youth artists and Toronto students and graduates of Oasis Skateboard Factory (TDSB).

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