SLRP 28th and B Street Mural
The Living Balance by ORLUarts
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Come and visit this beautiful mural at the Baler Building B Street Skate Park
SLRP 28th and B Skate Park Baler Building gets a new mural!
The ideal and requested mural design envisioned for this site was one that would highlight the natural habitat and history around the American River watershed and surrounding river environment. Ideally, this public art piece would become an attraction, teaching tool, and inspiration station for park visitors.
A dedicated group of vested and interested groups, and other relevant parties including local community organizations, city officials, representatives of local tribal communities, and environmentalists came together to choose muralist Liv Unger from among many applicants.
See how we painted the ticket booth! How cool!
Community members came out to paint the ticket booth at 28th and B
Download: Teaching Tool for "The Living Balance"
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Liv Losee-Unger's "The Living Balance" being installed on to the Baler Building Skate Park 28th and B Streets
Installation Day! Photo courtesy of R and R Advantage Printing
Liv's detailed Design Process
Liv spent many weeks working on design concepts and draft renditions to finalize the mural deatils. Her research was arduous and thorough, consulting with the many partners established in the artist selection and design review process. The final design is beautiful, engaging and enchanting while at the same time serving as an educational tool accessible to all.
Liv's Final Design
Teaching Tool for "The Living Balance"
Teaching Tool for "The Living Balance", page 1 corresponding to the first panel
The Teaching Tool contains information corresponding to the creatures and crafts featured in the mural.
Download the full pdf to browse through as you explore!
Each page of the Teaching Tool has carefully researched information!
Follow along on as you go and find these plants, animals, and birds all around you!
Native cultures harvested these plants for many important uses.
Reasearch and learn more about the plants and their usages.
Explore places you could never see with the Teaching Tool.
Explore deep into the mural! See fish up close in their environment.
The Teaching tool brings the mural to life!
Learn to love and care for the animals with whom we share our environment.
Enjoy the river and its inhabitants!
Never stop learning!
Community Paint Day at the Skate Park was a BLAST!
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, ORLUarts team leader Liv Losee-Unger led a mighty team of volunteer artists of all ages from the community to paint the inside ticket booth with details from her outdoor vinyl mural The Living Balance.
Click here to see the time-lapse of our paint day.
Special thanks to Mr. McDaniels and his students for all the help and love they brought to this project. Special thanks to Mayor Kevin McCarty for stopping by!
We look forward to seeing everyone at our dedication event coming soon!