DUST & LEDGER
Walls as a place of healing!
To enter the arena of a mural, is to enter a place of return, of safety, of peace and of hope that the wall will release the story and art from your hands. Sometimes in your hands the art flows freely and the wall bends to your vision. But sometimes the wall is harsh. The…
The Muralist
As the years go by and life’s paintings change, etch and fade; what is revealed is beyond beautiful. There isn’t just one story to tell. There are many. Each line a practice of cursive writing, of the lines on the walls, on the faces and in the hands that lifted a life! The colours brighter…
Legacy highway
Painted pathways A PAINTED PATHWAY CONNECTING COMMUNITIES TO A CULTURAL STORYLINE OF ART The [International] Legacy Highway movement was set in motion with a brush in hand by Vernon’s own and world renown Master Muralist Michelle Loughery. Initiated in 2006 jointly by a special and coveted partnership comprising of Stacey (her Agent & Confidant) and myself…
dust & ledger
When Removal Comes Full Circle There are stories that do not end.They wait.They sit in the dust.They sit in the walls.They sit in the hands of the next generation until someone finally says: this happened before. I was born from a town that was removed. Michel-Natal was not just a place on a map. It…
Indigenous Blue & the sunflower seed
SUnflowers 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,…
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 +…
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ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 