The Humboldt Public Art Committee and the Humboldt Community Gathering Place are working together to save a piece of Humboldt history.
Crews from the museum already collected high resolution pictures of the east side mural on the former Humboldt Seniors Centre before crews started renovations on the building on Aug. 9. Museum and gallery director Jennifer Fitzpatrick says the Ernest Bereti mural, originally painted in 1997, will be recreated and will return to the Community Gathering Place in the form of a mounted mural.
“As buildings evolve and change, there is a need to make (the murals) more secure and adapt them...We are duplicating the mural in a smaller size and then attaching the mural back to the building.”
Saving public art when the painting is right on the building can be difficult which is why the committee decided to make the mural more mobile in case more work has to be done on the building.
The committee wants to give building owners in Humboldt the chance to showcase beautiful works of art while also being able to move them if necessary.
“As buildings change and building owners change, they have the capacity to either keep the mural or we can move it to another location.”
Fitzpatrick says it was a good partnership with the Gathering Place being very communicative about the fact that they needed to do some renovations that would impact the mural.
