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used to be in the hallway leading to the rec center’s Aspen Room. e mural covers two 10-foot high walls, one is 22 feet long, and the other is eight feet long.

e mural is a collaboration between Center for the Arts Evergreen, which provided the muralist and the workshop students, and the Evergreen Park & Recreation District.

e ve students, Nica Marques, 11, Teddy Clark, 12, Izumi Hartshorne, 13, Alyssa Kuhn, 11, and Avery Ingalls, 12, designed the mural with Crosier’s input and supervision.

e theme was Colorado myths and legends, and they got creative with a jackalope, furry trout, hummingfox and gnome.

Crosier said they placed the gnome in such a way that people will see him waving at them through the door’s window as they walk out of the Aspen Room.

He explained that CAE selected him for this project because of the way he uses lines, textures and patterns in his murals. He has been teaching the skills to the students, who say that it takes intense brushwork to create the lines.

“It’s all in the brush strokes,” Alyssa, who attends Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen, added. “It’s all in the wrist.” e students agreed that it will be nice to have their artwork and their names on the mural for all to see.

Izumi, a West Je erson Middle School student, said her creative outlet usually is dance, but it was a nice break to create a mural.

Avery, who attends Deer Creek Middle School, said he enjoys painting murals because he likes their large scale, so he can add a lot of detail to paintings.

Teddy, an Evergreen Middle School student who has worked on another mural for CAE, said he likes painting murals because it feels like he’s leaving his mark, while Nica, who also attends EMS, likes to paint, especially watercolors, plus she dabbles in pottery.

Lisa Nierenberg, CAE’s executive director, said the indoor mural is the rst of several that CAE and EPRD will collaborate on. e summer, a shed at the Buchanan Fields will get a mural makeover.