Brescia University College
A century of stories from founders, faculty and students, in a 16 by 24 foot centennial mural.
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A collaborative mural that holds your organisation’s story
Multi-session projects where your people become co-authors of a large-scale artwork. Painting, reflecting and building something together that holds your collective story, for years to come.
What these projects do
Five things a legacy project can do for you
- Preserve a story worth keepingAnniversaries, centennials, heritage initiatives and multigenerational organisations.
- Hear what your community thinksCommunity engagement, programme evaluation and stakeholder insight, in images people recognise as their own.
- Shape a campaign around a shared voiceAwareness campaigns and community-led causes.
- Align your team around something realStrategic planning, culture building and organisational change.
- Leave something permanentPublic art, permanent installations, lobbies and civic spaces.
How a legacy project runs
From first conversation to permanent artwork
Listen
We begin with conversations. Whose voices need to be in this? What stories, images and memories define this moment? An advisory group from your organisation helps shape the guiding question.
Design
A visual language emerges from those conversations: shapes, symbols and imagery that are distinctly yours. Sketches go back to the advisory group for feedback before any paint is mixed.
Train
On larger projects, people from inside your organisation are trained to facilitate, so the practice stays with you.
Create
Over one or more sessions, participants paint directly onto large panels, many for the first time. The process is guided, and what emerges is genuinely co-authored.
Install
The finished work is documented, professionally finished and installed to last, in your building or a public space.
Share
An unveiling celebrates everyone who made it, and the artwork keeps travelling: exhibitions, reports, events and the stories people tell about it.
The six stages, across many projects
What your organisation keeps
- A permanent artwork, co-authored by the people who lived the story
- Connection between those who were there and those who come next
- An institutional memory that holds across leadership changes and time
- Facilitators inside your organisation who can carry the practice forward
- Photo and video documentation for your communications and annual report
I see the huge benefits of this process of art co-creation for people in academia and beyond.Gloria Perez, Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University
Recent legacy projects
Work from this series
Ursuline College Chatham
Students translated the founding sisters’ stories into four panels on past, present and future.
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E Ala E, Red Road to DC
150 people across 30 communities painted one travelling mural alongside a totem pole journey.
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