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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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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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Patricia Anne Sanyshyn Kozler Patricia’s dress flows, Chantilly lace, a dream made. In spirit, it grows. Silent whispers Chantilly lace and dreams Patricia’s spirit In a small coal mining town, lived a girl named Patricia. She lived a simple life surrounded by the sounds of the mines and the wind carrying the dreams of the
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 