Restoration Hardware in Seattle
Community members use sponges, brushes and grit to scrub graffiti from revered murals.
Dalya Perez’s 4-year-old son has learned the names of each Native American figure depicted in the murals on the sides of Wilson-Pacific School. There’s Chief Sitting Bull, Chief Seattle, Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Since Perez and her family moved to Seattle a year ago, they’ve gone to the school’s fields every day, where the 25-foot-tall portraits look out over the baskeball court.