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"Reach for the Skies" by EGR Art (Erica Gosich Rose)

Photo credit to @egrartist on Instagram

This beautiful 3 story, 50 foot mural was created and executed by @ergartist in the fall of 2018. This mural was made possible with a grant from the The City of Toronto Outdoor Mural Grant Program.

“The Kits Are Alright” by Nick Sweetman

"I was asked to represent community using local wildlife and so I chose a mother fox and her kits, in an urban garden surrounded by winged pollinators. Pollinators are a good metaphor for community - they are small but numerous and the combined effect of each one working to feed themselves and their next generation, gathering nectar from one flower and inadvertently bringing its pollen to another, is what allows the garden and the wider world to flourish. The vibrancy of the community depends on each individual member working on their part. Mama fox understands this, she is seeing eye to eye with the top butterfly as one of her kits beams upwards at her path to growth. But off to the left, one of the kits is wondering about that big green moth…" - Nick Sweetman, 2024

*This mural was made possible with the City of Toronto Outdoor Mural Grant

Land Acknowledgement
The City of Toronto acknowledges that what we now call Toronto is on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The City also acknowledges that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.