Murals by Edmonton-area students travelled with MMIWG inquiry, now part of legacy project – CBC

‘I hope there are less women who are going missing and being murdered and I hope there’s more justice’

Apr 25, 2018

Bee Kosmoski painted a woman’s eye surrounded by purple bruising, with a single tear drop falling from it, on the right side of the mural.

The theme of the mural is systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women and girls.

“I was upset over a lot of it at first,” said Kosmoski, a Métis Grade 11 student from Archbishop O’Leary High School in Edmonton, who learned about the topic at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Edmonton. “After a while, I felt like this was something I had to do in order for other people to understand what was going on.”

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