Celebrating Sustainability through Local Art
Vines of Renewal, a new mural in Willamette Valley’s wine country by artist Salomée Souag, celebrates sustainability and the significant role that our local wine industry is playing to conserve natural resources, restore native plant and animal life, breathe life into our soil, and raise the bar for worker wellbeing.
The artwork showcases the holistic approach to sustainable winegrowing that LIVE members practice. The mural shows the protection of birds, bees, and fish, the planting of oak trees, and the use of gravity flow for winemaking. Perhaps most importantly, we show the strong bonds of our community and the sharing of sustainable wine.
You can learn about many sustainable winegrowing practices throughout this website and support sustainable winegrowers by asking for LIVE certified wines the next time you are out tasting in wine country.
LIVE is a third-party certification program of sustainable winegrowing practices in the Pacific Northwest. We have over 350 members in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
About the Artist
Salomée Souag is a muralist, designer and creative from Switzerland who holds her Peruvian and Algerian ancestors closer to her heart, her community and her work. She currently lives in Portland and prides herself in her multi-cultural identity and encourages others to step outside of the box society has created for them. In her consistent and continuous evolution and artistic practice, she curates revolutionary work to give power to the people, the youth and artists. By taking up space in all forms, whether through projection mapping and large scale painting, wheat pasting and installations, or workshops for BIPOC artists and the next generation, Souag’s bold and powerful work encourages everyone to break down boundaries and borders, and to imagine expression.
See more of Salomée's work at salomeesouag.com
About the Mural Painter
Dede Chiloiro is an artist based in Portland, Oregon who experiments in different mediums with an underlying emphasis on sustainability. She mainly tends to work on large scale murals and loves to get lost in the act of creation. In her style of creating, Dede loves to collaborate with others, bringing ideas to life through painting.
See more of Dede's work at mademakemaking.com
A Generous Gift from Ribbon Ridge
This mural was proposed and developed by LIVE, and funded by the Ribbon Ridge Winegrowers Association. RRWA and LIVE wish to raise awareness of sustainable winegrowing in their AVA and in the Pacific Northwest. Nearly one-third of Ribbon Ridge’s members are certified by LIVE, and many of them hold other environmental certifications.
About the Location
This mural is painted on the side of Crush2Cellar, a long-running winery supplies store in downtown Newberg. We chose this site not only because it is frequented by many local winemakers but also because the mural faces OR 99W, a prime viewing spot for visitors traveling through.
In addition to hosting our mural, Crush2Cellar supports sustainable wine by offering discounted services to LIVE-certified wineries. Thank you Terry Sherwood and Crush2Cellar for supporting LIVE & the sustainable wine movement.