AUBURN — Saturday, Sept. 24, will mark the unveiling of the Auburn Art Wall Project on Main Street, with participating artists unveiling and speaking about their individual panels of artwork.

Following the 10 a.m. unveiling, there will be a celebration in Festival Plaza with music by Down East Brass and refreshments.

In May, the city and L/A Arts made a call to artists statewide to submit original work representing a “Natural World” theme for display on the wall measuring 700-plus feet along Main Street, between Laurel and Newbury streets.

All told, there were 38 submissions and eight artists were selected to have their work digitally reproduced on 14 aluminum-framed panels attached to the masonry wall.

The Auburn Art wall is a unique public art project in that artists weren’t commissioned to create new pieces of work. Rather, a call to artists was made to submit digital reproductions of two-dimensional work of any medium. Artists donated reproductions of their work.

There will be nine 4- by 24-foot panels and five 4- by 4-foot panels. The larger panels will display a grouping of four to seven works from an individual artist; the smaller panels will consist of a single image by a selected artist.

Participating artists are Gary Cooper of Fayette, Penny Hood of Farmington, Denis LeBlanc of Auburn, Kristin Malin of Georgetown, Ellen Rawding of South Paris, Duncan Slade of Norway, Lois Strickland of Pownal and Steve Traficonte of Oxford.

A panel of five selected the artists: Jean McGuiness of the Maine Center for Creativity; Robyn Holman, curator of the Atrium Gallery at the Lewiston-Auburn College; City Councilman Ray Berube, local artist Patricia Chandler and Odelle Bowman, executive director of L/A Arts.

Once the works were selected, a request for proposal for printing was issued, with Portland Color receiving the contract.

The work presented on the public art wall is expected to last for five years and will change as the years pass.