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Battle Creek Color the Creek veteran artist, Jaziel Pugh, will return to the 2024

four-day street art festival Aug. 12-16. (Shopper News file photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Purchased by the organization, one

of her works was on the cover of all

UNIFEM (now UN Women) reports

and documents for the year.

Her WKKF piece encapsulates the

ideas of the understanding of one’s

own feelings and those of others.

“It portrays people – women, men

and children – united as one family

within the universe,” she wrote in

her artist statement, “surrounded by

nature and birds symbolizing peace.

The children are embraced by the

lives of their family members, ener-

gized by the sun’s light.”

The four-day festival begins Aug.

12 with the announcement of new

downtown mural locations to be

painted by confirmed (to date) artists

Pugh, Jamari Taylor, David Eldred

Haitian artist Iris Geneviève Lahens

will unveil her WKKF Every Child

Thrives Banner, ‘A Day of Pure Joy,’

Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 11 a.m.

at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in

downtown Battle Creek across from

Mill Race Park and the 10 a.m. to 1

p.m. Color the Creek Youth Day.

and JARS.

Their projects continue in full pub-

lic view through Aug. 13, leading up

to Youth Day.

For the Horrocks (Capital Ave.

SW) project, local artists will be cho-

sen to paint a nature-themed mini-

mural to help beautify that vacant

building, according to Andert.

Interested artists can sign up at col-

orthecreek.com/minimurals

“We are partnering with BC

Unlimited to beautify that building,”

said Andert, “by painting the board-

ed up windows on the first level.”

Artists will spend Thursday, Aug.

15 finishing their murals and the fes-

See CREEK on 4

Correction:

A story on the dissolution of the

Suicide Prevention and Awareness

of Calhoun County in last week’s

paper should have used the

acronym, SPAOCC, not SPACC,

and, the Buddy Benches read

“Awareness is at the Heart of

Prevention.” The scholarship is

given to a college junior, not a high

school junior.

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