Three More Murals for Edmonds This Summer

After an exhaustive search, culminating in three walls, the Edmonds Mural Society is mounting three new murals this summer.  

“These murals will round out our collection nicely,” Edmonds Mural Society director Jeff Stilwell said in a news release. "There’s something for everyone, with one traditional, one surrealist, and one perspectival. It will be fun to see which one becomes whose favorite."

The three murals will be painted this summer, in July and August.

Each year, members (those who donate at least $20 to help pay for the murals) vote on a theme based on the revolving ideas of the beauty, history and people of Edmonds.  The 2013 theme was about history, and the members voted for a theme of Changing Times.  A Call To Artists went out last September based on that theme.  Many artists came through with excellent and varied submissions.  These three were at the top: 

Andy Eccleshall’s Changing Times, shows an actual walk back through time as one strolls down Main Street.  Starting with the present day near the fountain, as you approach the water, you walk back through the decades with actual businesses, vehicles, and road conditions of the time.  It will be painted on the north-facing wall of 111 Fourth Avenue North (alongside Embellished). 

Ellen Clark’s Coastal Companion  takes us from the past, to the present, and then into a possible future.  See structures used by the original inhabitants of the area, the first explorers checking it out, the initial logging industry, the fishing potential, our current ferry system, and then a future skywalk for all to enjoy.  It will be painted on the north-facing wall of 515 Main Street (just down the alley from last year's Member Choice Award winning mural Winter Walk by Susan Babcock).

Mona Smiley-Fairbanks’ Sebastes Maliger pays homage to our native quillback rockfish, once a bountiful species in our waters, now dwindling in numbers.  It will be painted on the south-facing wall of 514 Fifth Avenue South (alongside Edmonds Frame Design & Atelier).  Interesting, and a first for the Mural Society, Mona will include a QR code, leading smart phones to a website about efforts to revive the rockfish population.

Each artist, along with all the paint, supplies and equipment, is paid for by members of the Edmonds Mural Society.  Membership is open to any and all who are interested.  Individual memberships start at $20 per year.  Patrons who donate at least $100 are invited to join a walking tour of the new murals along with the muralists and witty host and EMS director, Jeff Stilwell.  That takes place in early September once all murals are complete. 

To become a member, you may donate online at www.EdmondsMuralSociety.com and click on the “Join Us” button.  You may also donate with a check or cash and mail it in, or simply drop by EMS headquarters at 409 Main Street in downtown Edmonds.  More information is available at info@edmondsmuralsociety.org, or 425-776-3778.  All donations to the Edmonds Mural Society are tax deductible, as it is a 501(c)3 organization.