Brookview Hills Mural Restoration

ARTPrentices worked alongside original artist Mick Burson and neighborhood volunteers to restore a mural that has been part of Brookview Hills since 2014.

Year

2026

Program Director

Stephen Uhey

Location

3400 Bosque Boulevard, Waco, TX 76710

Lead Designer

Mick Burson

ArtPrentices

Hadara Acevedo, Abigail Aguilar, Serena Arias, Marleiyna Castillo, Autumn “Adam” Eubank, Elijah Fillmore, Bailey Hancock, Naila Jamshid, Erynn Lopez, Llareli Martinez, James Miller, Crystal Ramirez, Emma Richardson, Khloe Rodriguez, Axol Shaffer, Saylor Starts, Arielle Stone, Molly Taylor, Gisele Toby, and Jennifer “DeeDee” Ybarra

Mentors

Liliana Benitez, Mike MacDonald, Grace McGaugh, Andrew Pahmiyer, Lamec Rosas, Edgar Sanchez, and Lorena Torres-Martinez

About

When neighbors asked to keep Mick Burson’s 2014 mural as the Brookview Hills Shopping Center was being redeveloped, Creative Waco’s ARTPrenticeship program helped restore it. High school apprentices worked alongside Burson and professional artist mentors to prepare the wall and repaint the mural’s bold shapes in an updated palette.

At Community Paint Day on May 30, neighbors picked up brushes and helped fill in sections of the design. The project gave apprentices hands-on experience caring for an existing work of public art alongside the artist who made it. The community celebrated the finished mural with a ribbon cutting on June 6.

After the restoration, apprentices returned to the studio to develop original artwork of their own. They shared those pieces at Washington Gallery on August 15, closing the summer with a public exhibition of their individual work.