Missouri wildlife is on display on a 90-foot section of fence on E. Battlefield Road. The muralist is Sophie Bryan, a biology student at Missouri State University.
Bryan grew up with an interest in art but turned away from it as she started considering careers.
“I reached a point where I started to get really burnt out thinking about trying to monetize everything I was doing,” said Bryan, “I sort of pivoted and focused more on wildlife and ecology and conservation side of things, which I had always loved but hadn’t studied quite as much.”…