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The City of Buffalo awarded Jenny Wuerker, Aaron Wuerker and Marchel Kelley, all local artists, this project. Kelley and the Wuerkers together designed the creek-runs-through-it mural and spent two months of 2013 painting images on the building.

“It just seemed like if the theme is ‘a creek runs through it,’ we’ve got to have a kind of narrative of the things that water and watershed ecology brings to the town,” Aaron Wuerker said. “So, there’s the fishing, and there’s the wildlife, and there’s the agricultural stuff with the cows, and then up above there’s a guy working on an irrigation ditch.”

The stairway leading to a second story on the side of the building adds complexity to the design, said Wuerker, as does the building’s height.

“It’s just a very tall building, so we had to use lifts and scaffolding and things like that,” he said.