The motivation behind the project was to have total participation from each and every student, teacher, staff member, and all interested parents at Georgetown. In this vein, the project meant that students could explore how to root out bullying while learning about art, painting, and murals.
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Students worked with a professional mural artist to learn the right techniques and skills to complete each of their contributions to the greater work, which will depict bookshelves full of books. Each participant is responsible for painting the spine area of a book, and the book takes a look at how to defeat bullying. Many of the students’ book spines feature bright colors, sunshine, hearts, and such words as “kindness,” “love,” and “lock up bullying,” as well as each student’s name. When the work is complete, the “library of kindness” will stretch around the walls of the school, offering brightness and hope against bullying.
The mural will act as a lasting reminder to be personally accountable in the fight against bullying as well as an artistic legacy for all those who participated.
Interested in the art of murals? Sign up for a class on mural painting today to start your exploration into the artistic genre. Classes will investigate all the different ways that murals can be incorporated into different settings and with different numbers of participants.