- An intense day of creativity, talent, and nature awareness at the Bepensa Garden with 75 participants.
Mérida, January 28, 2025.- With the aim of contributing to greater public awareness about the importance of protecting the environment, the Bepensa Foundation presented the citizens of Mérida with a major exhibition of 45 conservation-themed murals at the Bepensa Garden in the west of the city.
With the organization of 75 participants, including artists, creators, students, parents, and seniors—all nature lovers—and the support of Sherwin-Williams, which provided paint in a variety of colors and utensils, participants were able to express their vision of the need to conserve the planet's biodiversity for the benefit of current and future generations.
From early in the morning, the invited artists deployed paintbrushes, ladders, and all the necessary materials to capture their sketches, mostly images of the state's endemic flora and fauna, on a large-format wall measuring two meters by 2.6 meters.
The director of the Bepensa Foundation, Carlos Martín Briceño, acknowledged the enthusiasm, talent, and dedication shown by the artists on the walls, where they left a profusion of plants and trees, as well as birds, felines, rodents, reptiles, and other living beings native to the Iberian Peninsula.
This year's Murals in Bepensa Garden event, sponsored by Margarita Ponce Díaz, president of the Bepensa Foundation, also featured volunteers who provided necessary services to attendees and their families, as well as food, drinks, and other support.
They recalled that at the end of last November, an open call for applications and sketch submissions was launched. 75 participants, both individuals and groups, were registered. These included students, artists, and people from various occupations or professions interested in conservation.
This intense display of creativity, ingenuity, and talent displayed in the murals reflects society's commitment to the conservation and care of our natural resources, and there's nothing better, said Martín Briceño, than to have it done in the Bepensa Garden in the west of the city of Mérida.
Martín Briceño invited people to visit the Bepensa Garden (Avenida Mérida 2000, next to the Municipal Dance Center) to enjoy the installations and the art captured in the murals, but also to contribute to environmental protection, since the sum of all these efforts will lead to a better quality of life.
