Kids leave their mark with mural

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Residents in the Dufferin neighbourhood get to enjoy one of the newest contributions to Winnipeg’s growing collection of murals.

Installed last October, the mural can be found at the Winnipeg Boys and Girls Club located at 415 Stella Ave.

In a release, artist Dave Carty said he had plenty of help with the project.

“The Aberdeen Club Mural is an eight-foot by 16-foot rendition done by the kids of the Aberdeen Boys and Girls Club. The mural is painted on half-inch sign board by the kids of that club.”

Carty spent a session with those children discussing the cultural significance of the planned work. Ten children provided hand prints in tempera paint. They were enlarged before the children organized them on the board. The prints were copied onto the sign board before the kids painted them in a color of their own choice.

Carty said the design was inspired by the wide use of children’s hand prints on the Boys and Girls Club website and in its promotional materials. The building exterior had been recently painted and kids in the programs were encouraged to add their own handprints.

Those children provided Carty with additional inspiration, he added.

“The demographic of this club is Indigenous children and I therefore concluded that the use of children’s hand prints on the mural itself would lend itself to a lesson in Indigenous cultural history, that being rock art or pictographs.”

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