A Hope Project has unveiled a new painted sidewalk mural, designed by three teens to bring awareness to climate change and the care of our natural resources.

“We could not have accomplished painting a marvel of a drawing on to the street without the informed, experienced, invaluable generous assistance of on-the-ground-with-us artists Ivan Colin, Taj Williams, Isabelle Simon, and Karen Theusen, sent to us and/or aided by artists Ed Bereal and Ron Pattern. Shout out to graphic designer Jason Davies who not only made the grid, but figured out and led us in setting it down on a 40’ intersection. The process was not one hundred percent free of doing some math.

Love in motion was made visible by the parents of Sylvia, Lilly and Raya who were beauty, grace and tenacity in action. That street surface under a high sun was hot.

Volunteer Event Organizer, Kit Topaz, channeled energies into operations of faultless synchronicity, that without her, would have gone deeply awry .

Two coats each of nine colors plus white paint covered one thousand sixteen hundred feet on brand new asphalt on a grid of 66 two-foot squares. (If you find an error in my math, you’ll catch a glimpse of what the team experienced as they laid the grid out in perfect snap chalk lines.) 

A grant from the Whatcom Community Foundation made possible this picture of marine creatures representing all sentient beings at risk in Bellingham Bay. Making certain that we could take it from a Project Neighborly grant, Northwest Safety Signs donated the traffic plan essential for permitting and the barriers that make street closures a thing. Mt. Baker Window Cleaning volunteered to pressure wash the brand new asphalt. We began at sunrise and closed both days just before sunset and Old World Deli and Raven Bakery provided fuel for the art team.

Sign painted on sidewalk corners explains why we did it.”

– Lisa Citron, Founder/Director, From A Child’s Point of View

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