Unite Through Art: Support Our Community Mural

A group of 18+ artists, musicians & members of Corvallis Community have come together to co-create a community mural for social change and cohesion. Designed to be a communal experience, we are painting a modular and mobile mural with and for our local community. We are inviting all of our community into this process – passersby to make their marks, folks to bring their music, folks to feed us, & join us in conversation with their voice and marks of color – all through the vehicle of the mural itself. We are practicing being together by creating together.

This project is intended to provide an antidote for us all. Inviting emergent messages of truth and transformation, loss and love to seed beyond one space and place. With the overwhelming surge of erasure and censure of people, civil rights, job losses, and loss of the too-few protections for environment and earth, the loudest voices are media and acts championing these losses. It is all too easy to be pulled into isolation and fear and forget that we are in this together.

And so…over the next five months, given enough supplies, we will gather on Sundays, together, with our brushes of becoming, working with a mural as a container.

A container ……

For practicing community collaboration.

For claiming our truths and protests.

For emergent possibilities to seed & bloom.

For celebrating and remembering we are good at composting

and that beauty can emerge out of the muck, tending together.

The end result will be a mobile mural composed of many panels - panels of varied truths, dreams and considering ways we might move together for tomorrow. A mural that can be enjoyed for many years to come as a reminder and road map for community accountability, responsibility, beauty, joy and cohesion.

With this GoFundMe, we are inviting you to join us by funding this project.

Track our project in BlueSky when we begin in June: @MuralMana.bsky.social