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Artists and community organizations contribute to new temporary mural downtown [Video]

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The mural, created by various organizations, represents nurturing and will be removed upon completion of the Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement.

  • Hugo Zamorano led this project.
  • Contributors to the mural include Completely Kids at Jackson Elementary, the Intercultural Senior Center, Joslyn’s Kent Bellows Mentoring Program, BFF, and Pops Midtown Boxing

BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT: “It started off with me drawing on my mom’s walls and it never really stopped,” said Olivia Harruff, a junior at Papillion La Vista High School.

Olivia is one of many artists who contributed to this mural that now sits on the retaining wall between the Holland Performing Arts Center and the future Tenaska Center for Arts Engagement.

“I first really got involved when my art teacher reached out to me to be a part of this program known as the Kent Bellows Mentorship program,” Harruff said.

From there she was put into the mural arts program. For Olivia art is …

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