By Shaun Scott, Puyallup Tribal News.
A group of hardworking volunteers donned gloves and grasped paint rollers earlier this month to create a new mural on the Ke-Lah-Bid bridge located near the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority.
Drivers cruising down East 32nd Street in Tacoma couldn’t miss it even if they tried.
The project was funded by grant dollars from the Washington State Department of Commerce in collaboration with the Wrap Around Program, Chief Leschi Schools and the Youth Support Collective.
The colorful mural features base layers with blue water at the bottom and gray skies near the top.
“We wanted to focus on bringing people’s attention to areas that, at one time, were wild and had natural resources,” said Chief Leschi Schools Ceramics and Visual Arts Instructor Ashlee Branham. “That is what the design is going for — is to remind people this probably used to be a dry creek bed that the bridge crosses over. The design is to bring attention back to those water species, both plants and animals that would have been connected through this area.”
Read the rest of the story at the Puyallup Tribe of Indians website.
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