Abbotsford becomes a little bit brighter
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s a collaborative effort between a myriad of community groups and services, Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) transformed the bare concrete side of their building into a mural.
One of the very first steps was to hire Shelley Stefan, a Visual Arts (VA) instructor at UFV, as mural director. “It’s been a year-long project, and filled with research — looking at
international murals, murals that don’t just look pretty but have a social and cultural impact. We wanted to create a mural to show Abbotsford is full of all kinds of people.”
Stefan soon selected seven muralists, five of whom are students or faculty at UFV, to help move the mural from the planning stages into real life. As part of the cont’d on page 14