To celebrate Lunar New Year and 2025’s Year of the Snake, Pao Arts Center was interested in taking a fresh approach to their gallery space by organizing their first-ever fundraising art exhibit, Serpentine Celebrations, and facilitating a temporary, community-interactive mural to wind its walls. Invited by the admin team, I designed and hand painted a 50-ft long, family-friendly snake inspired by the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting. During Pao’s Lunar New Year Celebration and Year of the Snake Party, I facilitated a drop-in activity in which visitors were encouraged to embellish the mural with paper scales in which they wrote and drew their wishes for the new year.