On Dec. 17, Washoe County Commissioner Mariluz Garcia and artist Autumn Harry spoke at a brief dedication ceremony for Harry’s new mural at Riverbend Park in Verdi, a new Washoe County regional park and Truckee River access point that opened in June.
Garcia granted $6,000 to the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism for the creation of the mural, according to a Washoe County notice.
Harry is a member of the member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, a river guide, a muralist and a leader, along with her mother, Beverly Harry, of the grassroots environmental protection group River Justice…