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Issue date: 7/4/07 Section: Arts & Lifestyle

Media Credit: Kevin Hoffman Stephanie Hiebert, 6, draws a postcard at the Double Dip Deli to contribute to the Arts Alliance's cause for a postcard mural world record.

The Whitewater Arts Alliance is determined to place a new record into the already weird society of the Guinness Book of World Records by making the largest paper postcard mural.

The WAA has been asking residents to come into the Double Dip Deli, 180 W. Main St. and create their face on a 4-inch by 5-inch postcard by drawing, painting or any combination in-between, according to their spring 2007 newsletter.

The project started at Freeze Fest in January, and the WAA currently reports that more than 1,000 postcards have been returned.

The alliance has printed over 5,000 cards, and the project will continue throughout the end of the year, Dawn Hunter, a current board member and former president of the WAA, said.

The WAA has been around since 2004 and grew out of the repainting of the Prairie Tillers Mural. The organization first thought of the postcard mural after learning about a similar project at a Canadian museum.

"There waas an 'In Your Face' project that was at the Toronto Public Museum," Hunter said. "Our paper portraits evolved from that exposure."

The Guinness Book of World Records isn't the WAA's lone reason for doing the project, Hunter said.

The main goal was to "involve a broad base of the area population in an ongoing art project that would bring people to Whitewater to see it and attract even more people to do portraits."

Hunter said the Guinness Book of World Records has been contacted, and WAA hopes to make it into the next release of the book.

For more information, go to the WAA's Web site at www.whitewaterarts.com

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