Sierra to the Sea, Part 2
by Katy Fries, Brian Fries, Ryan Goodpastor
The western third of the 300 square feet of mosaic.
The eastern third. Lincoln Way is on the original route of the historic US 40 highway.
Look closely and you can see the names of hundreds of local veterans engraved in the handmade tiles.
Playful fish swimming down the pavilion driveway.
Fish!
Katy Fries cleaning up grout work.
The end of the mural, which wraps around all sides of the retaining wall.
“Sierra to the Sea, Part 2,” completed in 2018, is a mosaic mural that wraps around the entry to the Armed Forces Pavilion & Community Garden at 995 Lincoln Way, providing an abstract representation of the American River that runs through the canyon below Auburn . This mural serves as an extension to the Sierra to the Sea mosaic mural down the road at the School Park Community Garden. Design and project lead by Katy Fries, with development and installation support from Brian Fries and Ryan Goodpastor.
Most of the tiles were hand made, and hundreds of local veterans’ names can be found stamped into tiles on the wall.