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art and programming with signature Michelle Loughery Wayfinder programming
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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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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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Mentorship and the artwork of Hanako Nagao https://www.artrouteradio.com/e/wayfinder-mentorship-with-guest-artist-hanako-nagao-e30/ See, Believe and Mentor is the Wayfinder Philosophy. The time spent with Artist Hanako was a wonderful and very enlightening experience. The first big Community Mural that Hanako created will be installed soon in the town of Golden, British Columbia. The work, the process and the cultural
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Wayfinder Projects and the heart of the ART IN ACTION that supported the mural projects. What may look like murals was actually an outdoor community learning experience. There is a perception of a social system of support that is supposed to improve people’s lives and it is through a top down government managed approach. …this
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 