LINCOLN–(KFOR July 16)–The transition of the Pershing Center mosaic mural to Wyuka Park wrapped up on Thursday morning, after the final corner of tiles were placed up on a concrete wall that sits toward the west side of the Wyuka campus facing “O” Street .
“The stars aligned,” said Liz Shea-McCoy, who chairs the Pershing Mural Historic Preservation Committee. “We raised almost $1-million, $850,000 to meet the City of Lincoln’s deadline to safely remove the mural from in front of Pershing.”
Work to remove the more than 760,000 mosaic tiles got underway in 2021, when the preservation committee formed with the goal of safely removing the mural and moving it to a new home, which ended up being at Wyuka. The mural is horizontal and raised to a vertical position on which the 140′ x 38′ mosaic, made up of 763,000 square-inch ceramic tile. The 110-ton mural is likely one of the largest free-standing mosaic murals in the world.
Luke Holle is one of the crew members from Superboy Construction in Lincoln that helped placing the mural on the concrete wall. He told reporters Thursday what separates the people that agreed to do this and those who didn’t was courage…