UM TodayPreservation – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 In the News:  New discovery made in the preservation of the Bruce Head mural https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/preservation-of-the-bruce-head-mural/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/preservation-of-the-bruce-head-mural/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:43:17 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=226949 Jason Shields, an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design in the Faculty of Architecture is leading a project to preserve a 400-foot concrete mural crafted by late Canadian artist Bruce Head and titled “The Wall.”.]]> Jason Shields, an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design in the Faculty of Architecture is leading a project to preserve a 400-foot concrete mural crafted by late Canadian artist Bruce Head and titled “The Wall.”.  This week Jason and his team unearthed several never-before-seen photos from the mural’s creation and intend to incorporate the images into the final product.

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Image credit: A picture of the mid-construction documentation of “The Wall,” capturing the evolving geometry and surface treatment in 1977. (Oliver Botar and Jason Shields)

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