The artists behind a downtown Muncie mural recently tagged by graffiti have begun undoing the damage this week.

The We’re Trying Collective originally painted the brightly colored mural on the Walnut Street building that houses The Mark III Tap Room in July of last year, in response to a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando.  This year on August 14, it was defaced with graffiti painted in white, along with a few other downtown locations.

Now the group’s artists and volunteers are essentially “coloring in the lines,” according to the Collective’s Brady Euliss, who is also executive director of the Muncie Arts and Culture Council.  She says money for the extra paint and supplies is coming from a maintenance fund  the organization set up to help with repairs for time and weather.

The group says it will next apply an anti-graffiti coating to make further repairs easier.