{"id":515406,"date":"2026-06-24T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515406\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:53:12","slug":"new-mural-in-ashevilles-river-arts-district-focuses-on-hope-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515406\/","title":{"rendered":"New mural in Asheville&#8217;s River Arts District focuses on hope, healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 A new mural unfolding in Asheville&#8217;s River Arts District aims to inspire healing, hope and resilience. <\/p>\n<p>Local artist Nicole Leth is painting a 2,000-square-foot mural on the Aura Arts gallery building located on Depot Street. <\/p>\n<p>Her latest project, which is still a work in progress, focuses on healing one&#8217;s inner child. The mural will cover the arts gallery building with horses, along with text bubbles that feature messages such as &#8220;keep going&#8221; and &#8220;the sun will always return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MORE LOCAL NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it just puts a smile on their face and maybe reminds them of the joy they felt as a child, and that maybe helps them navigate today&#8217;s world with a little bit more joy and strength,&#8221; Leth said of the mural.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (8)<\/p>\n<p>She says the message was inspired in part by what the area experienced in the aftermath of Helene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 A new mural unfolding in Asheville&#8217;s River Arts District aims to inspire healing, hope&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-515406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}