Four days per week for the month of June, 11 students gathered at the Santa Fe Teen Center with spray paint, sketches and a pile of ideas.

"I remember at one point that I was feeling like we were stuck, for about a day," said Miki Boses, a ninth grader at Santa Fe High School who participated in the project. "And I knew we would get around it and I just didn't know how, but that added to the fun of the process."

That process resulted in a new, vibrant mural on an outside wall of the Santa Fe Teen Center in the city's south side. The mural — the product of a collaboration between New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence and Santa Fe Public Schools' Wellness Ambassadors to Voice and Empower program — reflects the messages the student artists wished to convey about challenges they face: violenc

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