Vancouver artist Jocelyn Wong's COVID mural to live on as soda-bottle labels

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      Jocelyn Wong's bright "All Together Now" message beautified the boarded-up Anthopologie storefront on Granville Street as the city sat in lockdown this spring.

      The project was one of the most short-lived murals during the pandemic: it took four days to create, then stood just four days before the shop reopened and it was taken down.

      But now the artwork is getting a second life on 40,000 Jones Soda bottles. 

      Her design will be featured on a limited-edition run of cream soda made by Jones. It's featured with other messages of hope created during the pandemic from across North America.

      The project is just one of the ways the murals that covered the city's boarded-up businesses will live on. 

      An outdoor gallery called Murals of Gratitude preserves some of the plywood murals celebrating health-care heroes created by over 20 artists for the shops of Gastown during the crisis.⁠⁣

      The exhibit is curated by the Museum of Vancouver, in collaboration with the Gastown BIA, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the City of Vancouver, CP Rail, Vancouver Mural Festival, and Low Tide Properties.

      You can also see a virtual rendition of the murals that showed here.

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