Bruno Hernani had the job of overseeing multiple artists who each created part of the new mural in downtown Prince Albert. (Susan McNeil/paNOW)

By Susan McNeil

Downtown Mural

New downtown mural a meeting of minds

Sep 21, 2022 | 4:15 PM

With one artist to oversee them, a group of young artists from Prince Albert created parts of a mural that was then blended, printed, and put on a wall near City Hall.

The mural graces the west-facing wall of a building at the corner of Central Avenue and 11^th Street, with Regina-based Bruno Hernani given the job of overseeing the creation.

“There’s a lot of individual pieces here so my role was to put all these pieces together to represent the main themes of the project,” Bruno Hernani.

The mural has been named Kistapinanihk, or the great meeting place and was designed around the theme of ‘Better for All – Diversity. Inclusion. Equality’.

“Everything started with this idea of creating something good,” said Hernani. He hosted a weeklong workshop with multiple artists, gave them a starting point with a piece he had created, and then melded the pieces together.

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One of the contributing artists was 19-year-old Taylor Sasakamoose, who is originally from Ahtahkakoop but now lives in Prince Albert.

Sasakamoose joined the theme of the overall mural with her personal perspective.

“I created a garden to sort of represent how we can come together as a community and help one another and live off the land like we used to,” said Sasakamoose. “I also created some abstract art to show my own style.”

For her, it was important to show a complete picture of her role as an Indigenous person with a deep sense of the past while also looking ahead.

“It also includes us today now in the present and also includes some of our values from before, it that makes sense,” Sasakamoose said.

She feels pride when she looks at the mural, knowing she had to work past personal challenges like autism and anxiety in order to work in a group.

“It was definitely hard, but it was also nice feeling like part of a community and uniting with other artists to create a piece of history,” said Sasakamoose.

Pictured are some of the people who worked to create the mural seen in the background. (Susan McNeil/paNOW)