And welcome, Leslie.

We know that Scranton received national attention for the office mural, right?

But there are so many other examples, compelling images out in the city.

What are the various ways that you have and how have you conceived of the mural program under Scranton Tomorrow?

- Sure.

So Scranton Tomorrow actually has been in existence since 1992.

And we have been charged for over a decade of really focusing on the downtown business district.

And maybe back in about 2019, we realized that we were actually missing a very significant piece of community building and community engagement.

And I had a conversation with Rose Randazzo, you may know Rose.

She in her past, facilitated the Pittston mural program.

And so Rose and I had a conversation about mural arts for a formal comprehensive program for downtown Scranton.

It didn't take us very long to agree that yes, we definitely needed to move forward with the endeavor.

And since 2019, 2020, we have been running full steam ahead with the Scranton Downtown mural arts program.

So we do see what Lisa was talking about.

It certainly is a community builder in every respect.

And we also believe that it is a significant economic driver for the downtown and supports tourism as well for our tourism partners.

- Yes, well, everybody has a favorite, I'm sure, or can't pick a favorite, but there is one that is really distinctive because it's so locally based and yet it has ripples that are international.

Tell us about The Hive.

- Yes, The Hive.

We love the good of The Hive, and for people that haven't seen it, they should look at our website and check out the good of The Hive.

The mural was produced by a national, actually our worldwide artist, Matthew Willie.

And not only is he an artist, but he is an environmentalist and he is an activist as well.

So the good of The Hive, the mural itself is on the back of Civic Ballet on Franklin Avenue.

It's on the rear of the building and it is all about the plight of the bee.

And so it's an interesting story where the health and wellness of our bees, our bee community, so the health and wellness of one individual bee has an overall effect on the health and wellness of the entire hive.

That then affects the entire community of bees.

We related that to the health and wellness of our own community.

So the health and wellness of one individual within our community relates to the health and wellness of our entire community.

And that has been an interesting opportunity for us to build not only community engagement, but community partnerships.

So we worked very closely with the Wright Center, with the Visitors Bureau, with Lackawanna County, the City of Scranton.

The partners were endless, the Civic Ballet.

So that's another great example of not only the purpose of the mural being health and wellness of your community, but also the partnerships that grew out of that, the collaboration that grew from that one singular project.

And we're also assisting Matt Willie in his goal of painting 50,000 bees throughout his career.

He painted not only for us in Scranton, but he has painted at Burt Bees, the Smithsonian, the United Nations, various countries around the world.

So we are really thrilled that we have a piece of Matt's work in the city of Scranton.

- That's true.

And you have that pollinator garden that you have young people there digging away and learning about the we the importance of that.

- We do, we do.

So another facet of that particular mural, so a gentleman on our staff, on our team is Steve Ward.

He serves as a master gardener in the Master Penn State.

Master Gardeners are an unbelievable partner of ours.

And we had students from Scranton Prep from Scranton Preparatory school spend a week with us for service work.

And so we had them build a pollinator garden and Steve taught them horticulture and the importance of the bees and the pollination.

And they did a magnificent job on building this garden, which is, they actually come back and maintain the garden with us too.

- Now Lisa talked about history.

So you have the trip house, there's one across, isn't there across the alley for?

- There is.

Now that mural was created by Eric Bussart and Michael Gilmartin at the Trip House.

That is not one that falls with under the scope of Scranton Tomorrow's downtown mural arts program.

But we certainly support it.

- [Erika] Surely.

- And it's absolutely magnificent.

But our murals do range anywhere from, you know, really talking about our history.

So they are educational tools.

So we have the Martin Luther King, the Dream mural, which obviously is a national topic, but we brought it back to our community.

That was Eric Bussart and Emmanuel Wisdom that put that mural together.

And then also, history is our big band mural, which is our latest mural and our dance or mural.

- That's wonderful.

Now there is, again, I asked Debi about the idea of the vision.

So then, do you put out calls?

Do you have ideas?

How about that give and take with the next wave of mural?

- Sure.

So because we have so many partners within the community, we do a lot of outreach and have conversations with our partners and what's meaningful to our partners and to the individuals that they serve within our community.

So that is how it's very grassroots-driven.

Scranton Tomorrow is a grassroots organization.

We also have a Design and Mural Committee, Mural Arts Committee, and that committee has a number of artists and designers and architects and people within the community and various partners.

They start to come up with themes and then we work with other organizations.

So we actually have a very large mural in the process for 2026.

- It's 2025.

- It's secret until we?

- Well, it might be be we.

- We'll wait for the unveiling.

- Yes.

- Drum roll please.

That's wonderful.

Do you have a map in Scranton of the murals or do we find- - On our website, on the Scranton Tomorrow website, you can find a full listing of all of our murals.

Also the Visitors Bureau, Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau has maps as well.

- Okay.

Now Lisa, we turn to you