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You Are Loved

Mural Artist: Regan Russell
January 2023

These murals were painted by 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students in an after-school program. Designed by Lead Artist Regan Russell, the murals welcome all to an uplifting, colorful, and transformative campus. Not only did the participating students help paint the mural, but they co-created the various imagery shown on the two mural walls.

The main mural wall shows doves in flight carrying olive branches. The doves symbolize the Holy Spirit and also double to represent peace. They are carrying the branches together, collaborating, illustrating the deep-rooted and connected Nativity Prep community and family. The doves fly toward the centered Guiding Star, which is also one out of eleven total stars on the main mural wall. Nativity Prep students are first generation students. Eleven stars represent Nativity Prep’s 11-year commitment, each representing one year of a student’s journey toward their college graduation. Lastly, the three crowns on the right give light and importance to the school’s mascot, The Magi. The Magi serve as a reminder to believe in blessings, trust the journey, follow our guiding lights and in doing so, create lives of opportunity, choice, and service.

Just around the corner, at the entrance to the Mentoring Space and adjacent to a cross, reads in big and bright letters: “You are Loved”. As a community of faith, love is a lived experience at Nativity Prep. All are welcome, all are loved.

This mural project was funded by the generous support of the Lawrence A. Appley Foundation.