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400 Scurfield Boulevard
Location Map
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Location: S side bet. Monticello & Columbia
Occupant: Whyte Ridge School
District: Tuxedo
Neighbourhood: Whyte Ridge
Artist(s): Annie Bergen, Whyte Ridge School Students
Year: 2013
Sponsors: Manitoba Arts Council, Take Pride Winnipeg!, Rona Home & Garden
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Whyte Ridge Elementary School students and muralist Annie Bergen worked on the 30 foot-plus-long Mural together. It includes
all four seasons, 3D features, and the history of Fort Whyte. The project was initiated by the school's parent council, said principal
Dave Poersch
"Recently we have done some playground improvements and they wanted to add a mural to it. So the parents and the school put
in an application to the Artists in the Schools program," said Poersch. The Artists in the Schools program is run through the
Manitoba Arts Council, and brings together professional artists and students from kindergarten to Grade 12. "So (Bergen) came
out and did some research with the students, or helped them do research, on the history of Whyte Ridge," said Poersch. "Then
she came back and painted with the students."
Poersch said every one of the school's students aged five to nine, more than 400 in all, painted something on the Mural.
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