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City of Wayne Mural Celebration




          By Sarah Shurge
             On Thursday, October 30th, a rib-
          bon  cutting  ceremony  was  held  at
          the City of Wayne Sign Shop for the
          city’s new ‘Welcome to Goudy’ mural.
             Lori Gouin, Wayne Downtown De-
          velopment Authority director, started
          the ceremony off by listing the digni-
          taries attending. She went on to ex-
          plain that the process for the mural
          started in October 2024.
             In  January  2025,  Wayne  was
          awarded the project through the DIA
          (Detroit Institute of Arts). Wayne sur-
          veyed the entire community, got re-
          sponses,  and  put  a  committee
          together. “This project is an example  Mayor John Rhaesa cuts the ribbon on the new mural in Goudy Park with City of Wayne Council, representatives from The
          of how the DIA is giving back to the
          communities, and the city of Wayne  Detroit Institute of Arts and TreeTown Murals.
          is very fortunate to have received this  to life by TreeTown Murals.  community    together.   “Because  been planted years ago and to have
          Partners of Public Park mural,” said  Eight murals have been painted  they’re  silhouettes,  anybody  in  the  this opportunity now is just pretty in-
          Gouin.                             by  TreeTown  Murals  in  the  tri-  community as time progresses can  credible,” said Mary Thiefels, Tree-
             The committee had a vision for  county area.                       be  the  person  in  the  mural,”  said  Town  Murals  owner  and  head
          the project, but it wasn’t coming to-  The Goudy Park mural has two   Mayor Rhaesa.                     paintress.
          gether  exactly  how  they  wanted.  different sides. One side is focused  Major thanks were given to the  For more information about Tree-
          Gouin gave a special recognition to  on music; to celebrate the music and  DIA and TreeTown Murals.     Town Murals, visit treetownmurals.-
          Natalie Rhaesa, Wayne Mayor John   artists that come through the park.  “We did a project with the DDA in  com.
          Rhaesa’s wife, for giving conceptual  While the other side is focused on  2018. We were looking at walls to do  Be sure to stop by Goudy Park to
          designs that were able to be brought  parks and recreation that brings the  a mural. It seems like the seed had  see the mural!















































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