Student artists representing every high school in Federal Way joined Mayor Jim Ferrell and other city leaders in the rain to unveil a series of 10 large murals at Town Square Park on Wednesday.

The idea of having student art at the downtown park came about when the mayor spoke to an Advancing Leadership’s Youth 2.0 class.

Ten free-standing, wall-size murals, painted in each of the high schools’ colors with the word “welcome” written in 130 languages (all spoken in Federal Way) were mounted all along the park.