Indigenous Blue & the sunflower seed
Every piece of land carries a layered history—a palimpsest of movement, labour, memory, and time. Beneath the modern surfaces of roads and infrastructurelive older pathways shaped by people, animals, and water:footpaths worn through grass,wagon ruts pressed into clay,corridors followed by deer and birds,and the steady hum of water moving beneath the soil. These quiet, ancient…
Art Route Canada: Dust & Ledger – The Art of Mining
A Wayfinder Legacy Project by Michelle Loughery Across this country runs a hidden route — a trail of art, labour, and legacy that connects coal towns, Indigenous communities, railway camps, immigrant kitchens, and youth murals painted under open skies. This is Art Route Canada: Dust & Ledger – The Art of Mining — a national storytelling movement led by…
Dust & Ledger
: Building a Strong Canada and a Living Trade Route Canada was built on movement — people, goods, and ideas carried over water, rail, and road. But every route needs care.Dust & Ledger is a plan to build the next generation of trade corridors: cultural, economic, and civic. It’s not about reopening the past — it’s…
Dust & Ledger
The Road I Still Walk I think about Steinbeck sometimes.Not the book itself, but the people under that dust—the workers who moved because they had no other choice.The road they took was long, but what they were really chasing was something that stayed in one place: stability, record, belonging. That’s what I’m after too.I just…
Muralestate -Fee Not so Simple
Publicly Supported, Not Publicly Owned: Why Murals Are Muralestate By Michelle Loughery Murals aren’t “just paint on a wall.” They’re Muralestate—place-anchored cultural property that holds stories, shapes how people navigate a neighbourhood, and quietly powers local economies. Even when public funds help present them, murals (and the oral-history narratives fixed within them) are not public-domain content. They’re protected artistic +…
Stand with Sveva
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION Date: October 8/2025 Contact:Michelle LougheryArtist & Founder – Wayfinder Project / Loughery Mural Artworks Foundation http://www.michelleloughery.orgVernon, British Columbia, Canada BC Achievement Award-Winning Artist Calls for Mediation on the Sveva Caetani Mural VERNON, CANADA – Internationally recognized Canadian muralist Michelle Loughery, recipient of the BC Achievement Award for Community Cultural Development,…
Way will stay!
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.…
Murals are mirrors
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…
“The Walls Remember”
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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