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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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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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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
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My murals aren’t just painted on surfaces—they’re woven into the very fabric of the communities they represent. They hold the stories, struggles, and spirit of the people, becoming part of the collective memory. The walls may carry the paint, but the real murals live in the hearts, minds, and shared experiences of those who see
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As I enter the studio today to spend a day contemplating what is the energy that surrounds me that pulls me to my safe place, it is the colour yellow that calls me. The girl with the yellow crayon, descendant of the Boyar, Korchinski and Sanyshyn family trees watching the sunflower take on many new
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From the time I was a child my life was exposed to small rural disasters. As a child growing up in a coal-mining town, the essence of dark fear was a normal. I remember my father coming home with his bright blue eyes rimmed with the residual black coal dust and his presence smelling of
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 