Shelton Arts Walk

Title: "The Optimist" Artist: Tim Crane Installed: 1999 Location: Corner of Railroad Avenue and 4th Street
Title: "Day of the Dead" (Dia de el Muerto) Artist: BriAnne Installed: 2020 Location: 318 Railroad Avenue (Additional murals located inside 'La Cantina')
Title: Shelton Clock Tower Artist: Mara Smith Installed: September 20, 2003 Location: Evergreen Plaza on Railroad Avenue (between 3rd and 4th Streets) Description: Has four red panels, each with a different relief sculpture depicting the 'Heritage of Mason County': Logging, Aquaculture, Recreation, and Native American.
Title: "1907 Webb Hotel Fire" Artists: Velma Graves and Hazel Beckwith Installed: 1974 Location: 122 West Franklin Street Description: The fiery scene shows the old hotel fully ablaze and the fire engulfing other buildings along Railroad Avenue. It also shows firemen with old pumpers spouting water in a vain effort to extinguish the inferno.
Title: Statue of a Logger Artist: Ronald Petty Installed: September 8, 1990 Location: Corner of 2nd Street and Railroad Avenue Description: Dedicated to the men and women of the woodworking industry, who have carved their communities and living out of the forest - sometimes, at the cost of their lives.
Title: "Skid Row" Artist: Richard Haines Installed: 1940 Location: 218 Mark E. Reed Way (Main Post Office entrance) Description: This tempera mural was a winner of the Treasury Section's 48-state post office mural competition.
Title: Totem Pole Artist: Donated by Boy Scout Troop 126 Installed: November 9, 1999 Location: U.S. Post Office Park (Railroad Avenue), on the 2nd Street side of the U.S. Post Office building
Title: "The Last Simpson Train on Railroad Avenue" Artist: Robert Chamberlain Installed: 1998 Location: 305 Railroad Avenue, on the 3rd Street side of the building Description: This mural depicts the last log train that went down Railroad Avenue in 1948, with the cars and people featured based on real people in the community. The Yesteryear Club raised funds to finance the project.
Title: "New Seasons" Artist: Gary Price Installed: 2000 Location: 419 North 4th Street (Entrance) Description: Bronze metal sculpture of a boy holding a girl who is releasing butterflies.
Title: "Bigfoot's Day Off" Artist: BriAnne Installed: 2022 Location: 423 Railroad Avenue, on the west side of the building
Title: "Taxi", it's a chicken to go! Artist: Vince Ryland Installed: September 3, 2016 Location: 320 South 1st Street, on the south side of the building
Title: Choice Diversity Mural Artist: Made by CHOICE High School students, led by Jennifer Kuhns Installed: 2018 Location: 807 West 8th Street - CHOICE High School Description: Starts with a painted figure of a girl with her hand out, blowing hearts across a circular wall to a painted figure of a boy at the end of the wall with a butterfly net. The circular wall is full of a rainbow of colored hearts made from broken pieces of glass.
Title: Craft Pie Artist: BriAnne Installed: 2019 Location: 118 South 3rd Street - side of T's Cafe and Espresso building