AR:T ROUTE BLUE
The body of mural work and programs of Michelle Loughery and the BC AR:T Route Blue Creative Highway
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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
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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
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: 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
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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
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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,
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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.
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 