After more than a year of planning and quite a bit of red tape, North Portland’s School and Community Reuse Aciton Project, or SCRAP, gets a vibrant new front entrance. Designed by artist Bruce Orr (above), of MudEye Puppet fame, who lives in the neighborhood with his wife, artist-muralist Carla Forte, SCRAP’s mural vividly illustrates the many creative uses of recycled materials. In a unique community focuses design process, neighbors and visitors to SCRAP were encouraged to comment on two of Bruce’s preliminary sketchs. Those suggestions (a bright background, not grey!) were incorporated in the final mural. Teri Thomas Petersen, Art and Education Director of SCRAP (right) is thrilled about the new mural on the blank wall at 3901A. N. Williams Ave.

-Joanne Oleksiak

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All Photos provided by Joanne Oleksiak