Atalie Gagnet, Blooming Through the Waves, 2022

As part of Rosewood Arts Center’s renovation project, a community mural was created in partnership with the community.  Designed by Atalie Gagnet, the mural was made possible through a special partnership with the Dayton Printmakers Cooperative (DPC), students in the Kettering City Schools, and Kettering residents. Three Fairmont High School students  apprenticed to paint the mural.

Titling the work, one of the students wrote: “I came up with Blooming Through the Waves because I feel like it encompasses both parts of the wave and the flowers. It shows the flowers blooming through the colorful waves. I kind of like to think of it like the flowers bloomed in the waves despite the adversity it faced. Kind of like a community together.”

Atalie Gagnet is an Dayton-based artist with over two-decades of mural painting experience.  She has travelled across the U.S. to create her work, most notably in various cities throughout the Midwest and for special projects in Miami, Florida for Architectural Digest,  as well as Graniti, Sicily for Graniti Murales.

Blooming Through the Waves was commissioned by the City of Kettering’s Art in Public Places Program with support from the Ohio Arts Council and the Montgomery County Arts and Culture District with Culture Works.