ARTIST Michelle Loughery
Studio work of 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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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
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The Town That Vanished: Michel Natal and the Walls That Would Not Fall Beneath the towering peaks of the Rockies, deep in the belly of the earth, the men of Michel Natal toiled in darkness. Michel Natal was more than a coal town—it was a world built by hands that toiled in darkness and hearts that found light
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 