New mural debuts at Wilcox Tunnel

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – A Mural was unveiled this morning on the exterior of each end of the Wilcox tunnel.

The Seventy-Five Thousand Dollar project was funded by the Footprint Foundation, The Benwood Foundation and the City of Chattanooga.

Greta McLain, a Minneapolis artist whose work can be seen around the world, has been working with her team and several local artists on the project since January.

“The mural’s called See Me Shine. And the idea is when you see kids, in general, we want to project their beautiful, bright future. So when we see them, even if they’re from whatever neighborhood they’re from, whatever their streets look like, we still want to see them, having success, see them shining. So this is our, this is us seeDing that, planting that, in this community.

The canvases used to create the mural were painted in a series of Paint Parties in the local community and in Minneapolis.