Two beautiful and talented ladies were chosen to be the first ever RedRoom artists in our Mural Program…and boy have these two hit it out of the park!!! We would like to give a HUGE thank you to Jennifer Barreras and Mackenzie Lunger for giving us a piece of you. There are no words…simply stunning! Come down anytime to see these riveting pieces. They’re located on our outside walls off of Charleston Blvd!

For Jennifer Barreras, her mural “The Living Rock” was an image that came to her in the form of a dream. When complete, her mural will accurately depict 4,700 foster children living here in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is her way of creating awareness and most importantly making their voices heard. Through Jennifer’s mural, she is creating an image that will help others understand the burden they carry and to visually grasp the magnitude of this issue. She is in the process of creating The Living Rock Foundation. It will be a website that links all of the foster care agencies and orphanages here in Las Vegas so that individuals can make donations or volunteer their services. After Jennifer is done with her mural she has plans to do another where she’s from, New Mexico. But it doesn’t stop there…the vision is to create awareness in every state and then every country. Jennifer hopes for this to be her lifes work…….This girl never ceases to take my breath away!

Jennifer Barreras – The Living Rock

For Mackenzie Lunger’s mural “99 Red Balloons” her goal was to do something fun. As an artist she enjoys painting stylized portraits with accentuated features. The idea of entanglement is consistent in almost all of her work. The girl in the mural has tangled herself up in the 99 red balloons. In her mouth she holds a red paintbrush as if she was the one to paint them in there, but also a needle in cause of a need for escape. Almost every time Mackenzie shows the mural she gets asked “is that you?” She’s says its a part of her, so in a way we are the same. The idea came to Mackenzie while listening to the song “99 problems”… in the mural the female has created her problems but is also capable of destroying them…..What a lively and witty concept, a gorgeous and relatable piece!

Mackenzie Lunger – 99 Red Balloons