FILE: A home lies in ruins in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, one of the areas hardest hit during the 2017 Tubbs Fire. (Photo by Benjamin Cosse/California National Guard)

Sonoma County is soliciting applications from artists to create a memorial for the victims of the 2017 wildfires.

The artist or team of artists will be awarded up to $320,000 to design, create and install the memorial.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.