After a week of cold, snowy weather, a new mural provided a pop of color in the Milton E. Ford LGBT Center on January 24. The mural, designed by Rhiannan Sibbald, ‘18, depicts the GVSU LGBTQ+ community through a wall of colorful flowers and characters.
“ The LGBTQ+ community is so vibrant, literally and figuratively. As a proud ally, I wanted to create a piece that reflected that vibrancy, radiating joy, peace and freedom,” said Sibbald, who was contacted this summer by the LGBT Center to design a piece of art for the space.
Sibbald is a full-time illustrator and muralist based in Grand Rapids, and has painted murals for schools, libraries and other places in the city.