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Co-Created Murals & Legacy Projects

Some things are worth making together.

These are multi-session projects where your group becomes the co-author of a large-scale artwork
— painting, reflecting, and building something together
that holds your collective story.
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What we make together

Through guided conversations, storytelling prompts, and creative exercises, participants help shape the themes, imagery, and meaning that live in the final piece.

The result is a powerful visual document that reflects your organisation's voices, history, and vision — co-authored by the people who lived it.

What these projects can do

Every co-created mural starts with a question your group is sitting with.
The project is built around that question—
and the artwork that emerges becomes a lasting answer, made visible.
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Preserve a story worth keeping

For organisations with history, heritage, or lived experience that deserves to be held and passed on. Participants contribute stories, images, and memories that become woven into a large-scale visual archive — part artwork, part institutional record.

 

Ideal for:  Anniversaries · centennials · heritage initiatives · multigenerational projects

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Understand what your community actually thinks

For organisations doing meaningful work who need to know — really know — what the people they serve are experiencing. The art-making process surfaces insight, builds trust, and produces qualitative data that no survey can replicate.

Ideal for:  Community engagement · policy research · program evaluation · stakeholder insight

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Shape a campaign around a shared voice

For groups driving awareness around an issue, cause, or social movement. Instead of a poster or a slogan, your campaign gets a large-scale artwork co-created by the very people it speaks for. The collective authorship is the message — and it travels: photographed, printed, exhibited, shared, and installed.

 

Ideal for:  Advocacy campaigns · public awareness · social movements · community-led causes

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Align your team around something real

For leadership teams or organisations going through change. Making something together, around a shared theme or question, creates alignment that strategy sessions rarely achieve.

 

Ideal for: Strategic planning · culture-building · team alignment · organisational change

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Leave something permanent behind

Some projects are simply about making a mark — in a building, a neighbourhood, a campus, or a city — that says: the people who were here made this.

Ideal for:  Public art · permanent installations · civic spaces · community landmarks

Brescia Centennial Portrait

100 years in colour, Brescia University College, 2020.

The Belonging Action

Stories of Migration, Coast Salish Territories, 2012.

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Art In Just Recovery

Arts Action Research post pandemic isolation, Guelph, 2023.

Building Teams Through Co-Creation
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Reviving Creativity in Schools
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Aging as an Active Creative Practice
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Art as a Catalyst for Civic Voice
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Communicating Beyond Words
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Ready to commission a legacy work?

Let's explore your idea

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"As an academic let me make clear that the value of the community experience in the process of collective art production cannot be measured. I see the huge benefits of this process of art co-creation for people in academia and beyond."

Gloria Perez, Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University

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