Posted: October 26, 2025

This is a Request for Proposal

Locaton: 806 NW Brooks Street, Bend, Oregon (the Worthy Building)

Dimensions: Approximately 16'x 33'

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Access: Artist will need to suspend from roof and rappel downward. My neighbor refuses to cooperate. We are not allowed access to his surface or airspace. Roger Worthington owns the Worthy Building and endorses the mural project. Equipment provided as needed.

Vision: A fierce Native American riding on a stampeding bison, joined by a thundering herd including a wolf, grizzly bear, elk, wolverine, and kit fox, with a squadron including a spotted owl, condor, hawk, bald eagle and marbled murrelet flying overhead, are chasing down “the Plunderers”: a cluster including a logging harvester, a bulldozer, an oil derrick, a pipeline, power lines, a paper mill belching smoke, and a Wall Street fat cat clutching bags of money. Titled: The Avengers.

Vision and details subject to change.

Themes include: we destroy wilderness at our peril; love it or lose it; we can run but we cannot hide; there will be a reckoning.

Contact: Please e-mail your proposal to Mike Bittner at mbittner@rgwpc.com

Compensation: Negotiable and handsome.

Start Date: ASAP, so long as weather will safely permit.

Backstory: The Worthy Garden Club has attempted to beautify the building RGW owns for over 2.5 years. My neighbor has objected to the original design- “Rewild” - see the below, on grounds it contains a spotted owl and a wolf.

I then proposed a new mural - “Cultivate Your Garden” - featuring wildflowers, hummingbirds and butterflies. Again, he has objected.

Both murals were painted on plywood. The plywood is between one and 1.5 inches wide. After over a year of discussion the City of Bend has amended its sign code to allow murals that are painted on plywood, as opposed to being painted directly on the surface. However, they prohibit murals that creep ever so slightly into a neighbor’s airspace.

The City of Bend wants the Worthy Garden Club, a non-profit, which has already spent nearly $45,000 on two murals, not including hundreds of hours of investment by WGC staff, to spend another $2-3,000 on hiring a surveyor to establish that the proposed “Cultivate Your Garden” mural probably nudges over the abstract property line. At that point they will deny the WGC’s permit, resulting in a colossal waste of time and another doomed attempt to beautify downtown Bend.

Click here to follow WGC's attempt to beautify downtown Bend with a mural.

Worthy Building

Cultivate Your Garden

Proposed ReWild