ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY
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Legacy Statement of Michelle Loughery Founder, Wayfinder Art Route Blue What is mine is not only paint on walls — it is a lifetime of stories turned into light. It is the courage to stand in the open air with a brush and a dream, and to turn community into colour. My murals are not decorations.
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A Kaleidoscope of Identity A wall is never just a wall. Sometimes it is a mirror. Sometimes it is a kaleidoscope — fragments of story, colour, and memory shifting until we see ourselves inside them. When I painted the Sveva Caetani Mural, I thought I was honouring her story — a woman who lived locked
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by Michelle Loughery There once was a girl with coal dust in her hair and mural paint on her fingers. She came from Michel-Natal, a town that once sat proud in the East Kootenay mountains, until it was forced into silence — dismantled in the name of tourism and government progress. The community was relocated,
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Art Is Infrastructure: A Legacy Blog by Michelle Loughery Why Copyright is the Cornerstone of Placemaking, Tourism, and the Skilled Future of Canada By Michelle LougheryAward-winning artist | Creator of the Wayfinder Mural Model | Founder of ART ROUTE BLUE There’s a story I often tell—one of hands. My grandfather’s coal-blackened hands, my grandmother’s stitched fingers,
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These murals are not just art. They are history. They are heart. They are home. Michelle Loughery didn’t just paint walls—she uncovered the soul of a nation.
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For over 30 years, Michelle Loughery has carried the torch of a movement born not in boardrooms, but in the coal-streaked valleys of Michel-Natal, BC. Hers is a legacy built not just with paint, but with the hands of many who came before—immigrant tradespeople, artisans, and blue-collar visionaries who saw the blank walls of this
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 