EVENT: Fairbanks Community Mural Project Celebration

Please join us Tuesday Sept. 13th, 12:00PM in Fairbanks at 60 Hall St. to celebrate the creation of our first community mural project as we recognize the artists, and featured community members including local elder Vernell Titus, local Native youth, and Native Movement staff leader, Naawieyaa Tagaban (Lingit). There will be food, hot drinks, and a community blessing led by our community organizers.

The photographs used in this mural were taken by Native Movement staff photographer Jeff Chen. The mural installation was a collaboration between Native Movement, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition, and NDN Collective. The featured phrase – “What the hands do, the heart learns” – is a principle of the organization Movement Generation.

The mural focuses on large photographs taken during the recent Nenana Youth Culture Camp in July and was in collaboration of many hands in our community. There will be a performance by a local drumming group with song and prayer to bless the collective effort that went into the creation of this prominent art piece at the intersection of Wendell Ave and Hall St. across from the Morris Thompson Cultural Center.

This is the first phase of a collaborative community project and we want you to be involved! Submit to our interest form here.