{"id":73947,"date":"2021-08-10T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/a-mural-is-born\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T02:01:40","slug":"a-mural-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/a-mural-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A mural is born"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon, a new mural depicting Elizabeth Kaaxgal.aat Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights icon, will greet visitors approaching downtown Juneau by water.<\/p>\n

Once complete, the work will appear on the currently blank south wall of the Marine Parking garage, the structure on which the downtown branch of Juneau’s public library sits.<\/p>\n

But, first Tlingit and Athabascan artist, designer, and activist Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl and her apprentices must prepare each piece for installation —an intricate process that kicked off this week.<\/p>\n

New mural to honor Alaskan civil rights leader<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

The pieces of the 60-by 20-foot mural arrived earlier this week from a printer in Philadelphia. In a downtown studio, Worl and her team are doing the painstaking work of applying layers of paint to the pieces that will eventually come together to create the mural.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday afternoon, Worl said she was happy with the team’s progress as they hung large pieces of the mural from the wall. The artists followed a smaller version of the mural that split each section into a grid as a guide for their work.<\/p>\n

Depending on the weather, Worl expects to install the mural beginning Aug. 17 and to complete it by Aug. 23.<\/p>\n

Worl said she is worried that recent rainy weather could slow installation and cause the project to incur extra expenses. She said her GoFundMe<\/a> campaign is still active.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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