Directed by Rebecca Watson and Paul Taylor, the LHS Mural Project is a STEAM, art, science, and indigenous wisdom initiative to celebrate and articulate Laramie and Albany County’s unique “Water Story”. In particular we honor our landscape and geology that gifts our community with pristine water. As of 2021, we have produced 4 educational community murals, designed by LHS art students in collaboration with scientists, teachers, artists, and students. Once designed and base coated, the murals are then texture dot painted by the community, LHS students, UW Shepard Symposium participants, and the general public. In our murals the snake symbol represents the Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent who brought water to the world and is both male and female. The Rainbow colors and dots honor diversity and inclusion. The dots represent the raindrops and all of life-plants, birds, animals, insects and people, that walk on the Mother Earth and are created from the water that falls from the Father Sky. Paul Taylor is mentored by Aboriginal Elder Yidumduma Bill Harney and serves as the Artistic Director. The mural process is inspired by Australian Aboriginal culture and wisdom of “Caring for Country”. The long-term foundation of a vital, healthy, just, prosperous, and surviving community is a custodial caring relationship with your land and your water. Indigenous wisdom and academic research have shown localized environmental education offers a scaffolding of story connections to our landscape which enhance healthy human relationships, a sense of security, and mental health. Access to clean, safe, drinking water is a basic human right and a foundation of environmental and social justice.