Painted on Frost River in the Lincoln Park Craft District, Paul Lajeunesse’s mural shows people pounding steel, working fabric and serving food in brilliant reds, greens and yellows with a backdrop of woods and water.
Lajeunesse (pronounced la janess) interviewed Bent Paddle Brewery, Hemlocks Leatherworks, Duluth MakerSpace and more to understand and best represent the “blue collar, handmade neighborhood,” he said in 2017.
The assistant professor at the College of St. Scholastica has also painted murals for the Government Services Center in Virginia, Minnesota, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
More than murals, he paints landscapes and interiors, where he focuses on finding the “outward expression” of an inward feeling.
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