Lead artists on the project was Sedra Casteneda and Supporting Artists included:  Mike Giron, Mary Ensz, Jair Rodriguez, Remar Barrera, Josh Earp and Richard Harrison. About 55 community members attended community projection night and paint day events. The mural is 57' x 17',

 

Located on the historic building at 4837 S 24th St. in Omaha.  

 

We painted a mural of a Quetzal, a bird that is sacred to Mesoamericans.  According to Mayan legend, the warrior prince Tecún Umán, had a quetzal as a spiritual guide. When the Mayan hero died, the quetzal landed on his wounded body, leaving the bird with a distinctive red chest. The mural was painted through a process of community planning meetings, paint days and a festive completion celebration with traditional food, music and dancers.  It was painted on a building with a graffiti problem, and some peeling paint.  In painting it we were able to beautify that unsightly problem.   In addition to the Quetzal mural we painted a street car in an area above the mural to pay tribute to the historic street car stop at that location and in particular a driver named Ray McMichael, who was the grandfather of Ross Pesek, a lawyer whose office is across the street.  The image also pays tribute our 2014 Magic History Mural, which had been tagged and beginning to age.