There’s a new mural downtown – two, actually. If you duck into Court C between South 9th and South 11th Streets (near the entrance to the Rialto Theater) you’ll pass them: highly pixilated swathes of pastels brightening up the alley. 

The mural was funded by Seabury Middle School (a new downtown-based  campus for gifted students) as part of an annual Artist in Residence program. Seattle muralist Jose Orantes worked with students to reproduce a Photoshopped, pixilated version of a painting by Marcus Krackowizer.

Says Seabury administrator Halley Griffin: “We chose to do a mural for this program because our downtown campus is brand-new this year and a major focus of our program is an integrated curriculum with a focus on the city as our classroom. To cap off our first year we wanted to do a community improvement project, and chose Court C for convenience and because it really needed some brightening!”

More information: www.seaburymiddleschool.org