Everyone’s familiar with West Seattle’s famous murals of historic scenes, mostly in The Junction (including the recently removed-and-replaced “Press Day“). Soon, new art will join the connection, courtesy of local youths. We caught up with the young artists for these photos during a recent work period at High Point’s Commons Park.

High Point Community Center‘s Rebecca Hall explains the project:

High Point staff is overseeing a mural project at Commons Park. The theme is past, present, and future. It was teen led, designed, and executed. It incorporates soccer, different ethnicities (including a hajib on one of the girls), local industries such as Boeing, and local attractions such as the Space Needle. There were a total of 46 different youth who worked on the mural project over the past three weeks. Youth ranged in age from 8 to 18 with the majority falling between the ages of 9 and 14. The mural will be complete after the youth add in writing what they want to be when they grow up on the panels. The mural will then be sealed and with the assistance of the Junction Association it will be installed in the walkway between California Avenue and the parking lot behind merchants in the Alaska Junction.

We hope to get an installation date firmed up soon. The Junction Association is having the hallway painted before the new murals are installed.

That’s the walkway in the block between Edmunds and Alaska, near Northwest Art and Frame.