August 2013
Located in Meldrum Park at the corner of 6th & Lewis
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Lead artist - Dave Loewenstein
Assistant - Ashley Jane Laird
Apprentice - Nate Buchholz
This project has been supported in part by:
Sioux Falls Arts Council
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department
National Endowment for the Arts
Whittier Middle School
Whittier Neighborhood Residents Association
Initiated by Whittier
Middle School students in teacher Lela Himmerich’s class in 2011, this
community-based project is a true collaborative effort. Over the last year, the
three visiting artists, Dave Loewenstein, Ashley Laird, and Nate Buchholz, met
with more than two- hundred neighborhood residents and area student groups to do
research, develop the images and paint the mural. In April, the completed
design was unanimously approved by the Sioux Falls City Council. The project was coordinated by the Sioux Falls Arts Council and is supported by an “OurTown” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you to the Whittier Students, Lela Himmerich, our mural design team and the many volunteers who helped paint and coordinate.
"Our mural welcomes
people to Whittier, a working-class neighborhood that embraces its heritage,
celebrates its dynamic cultural and ethnic diversity, and looks forward to
addressing and overcoming challenges to a prosperous and peaceful future. Our
mural recognizes this as the past and present home to Native Americans from
many tribes, as well as the place where settlers have come from across the
globe. Our mural sings with a chorus of many languages and radiates with the
colors of many cultures. And, our mural
shows the neighborhood working together to care for its natural beauty, the
education of its young people, and the welfare of its most vulnerable
residents. Our mural is beautiful,
engaging, and is the product of many dedicated hands and minds."
- Mural Design Team Vision Statement
Below are details of the mural from left to right.
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