Sarah Mooney Lemoore mural project gets the go-ahead from local agency

The Kings County School Board recently gave its enthusiastic, unanimous approval to allow a mural to be hung on the top portion of the south-facing wall of its East D Street office building across from the Travelodge Motel.

The museum’s mural committee is giving the community a say in the mural’s content. The patchwork quilt motif of “The Fabric of Our Heritage” mural will contain “quilt pieces” that respectfully represent the diversity of the community’s nationalities, cultures, and the military branches represented within our citizenry.

Anyone can submit suggestions or sketches by e-mailing them to LLAHODNY@LAHODNY.ORG before the August 27 deadline.

The mural committee will be responsible for determining the final designs to be incorporated on the “quilt.” Groups to be represented on the mural may include, but are not limited to Tachi, Europeans, African-Americans, Mexicans, Azoreans, Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Southeast Asians, East Indians, and various military branches.

The mural will be drawn on aluminum panels by Mario Gonzalez, the project’s art director. The final paper rendering requires approval from the Lemoore City Council. A painting schedule will then be published on the museum’s website. All would-be artists will be able to add some brushstrokes to the mural panels under Mario’s direction.

The committee anticipates a public mural dedication and unveiling ceremony to be held at the KCOE site before the end of the year.