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Heritage arts · Committee 1 and Committee 3

Heritage Mural Initiative begins community engagement.

The first public participation pathway is designed to shape heritage-based art with East Stuart residents—not around them.

The purpose

Public art should carry memory and create opportunity.

The initiative connects public art, youth learning, oral history and neighborhood storytelling. Residents, elders, churches, families and local historians can help identify the people, places, traditions and turning points that deserve representation.

Artists will be asked to demonstrate community participation, historical care and a realistic approach to materials, installation and maintenance.

Project pathway

Five steps before a completed work.

  1. 1
    Listen and document

    Collect stories, photographs and historic references.

  2. 2
    Vision with residents

    Identify themes, priorities and community expectations.

  3. 3
    Prepare artists and youth

    Open participation, learning and paid-opportunity pathways.

  4. 4
    Review sites and approvals

    Confirm property permission and applicable public processes.

  5. 5
    Fund, install and steward

    Publish the selected concept, budget, schedule and maintenance approach.

Take part

Share history or join the creative process.

No wall, final design, artist award, funding amount or installation date is represented as final until Heritage & Opportunity Alliance completes the applicable review and approval steps.