Artist and science illustrator Jane Kim is cheering on her feathered friends in the latest Andra Norris Gallery exhibition, “Yay Birds!”

“Birds are all around us. We are so much alike that they teach us about ourselves,” Kim said.

It’s a big deal for Kim because it’s a big date: the 10th anniversary of her monumental installation Wall of Birds, a 2,500 square-foot mural that NPR called a “masterpiece,” and Audubon dubbed an “avian Vatican.” It is the only painting in the world to show all 243 modern bird families life-size.

To celebrate, Kim and 15 of her artist friends have mounted an exceptional collection of avian themed paintings, including a couple of scaled down panels from her original mural.

In a set of sketches for the original “Birds” wall you can see pentimenti, ghosts of pa

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