Compassion Health Mural

2025

Led by children's book illustrator Merrill Rainey and Assistant Instructor and YAAW alum Bart Reamer, the team of apprentices painted a mural at the Compassion Health campus located at 1055 Dorr St, Toledo, OH 43607. The apprentices met with their clients including Dr. Anne Ruch and Director of Community Engagement, Janelle Pinskey Matson. After researching the history of the Dorr Street corridor with help from Dr. Nicole Brock of the African American Legacy Project, the team designed a mural that reimagines the past and future of the area. This group learned about systemic oppression through discriminatory lending, urban renewal and red lining through their research. Many people are featured in the mural from families to musicians. There are themes of hope, references to various decades, animals, and other nods to local iconography.

Photos by Merrill Rainey

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