For the past 4 years an art professor from Penn State has been coming with the volunteer group from that school, and each year he leads a mural project at one of the local schools. This year the mural was done at John F. Kennedy school. The principal requested a mural painting of the DR ( a map) with city names so that it could also be used as a learning tool for the younger grades. Stan (the art prefessor) and some of our other volunteers sketched out the plan and several volunteers helpingwith the drawing and painting transfer to the wall. It turned out really well!
Below is a photo of the sketched plan.
Stage 1- an outline of the island
Stan (or el Stan-o as we call him) and the principal putting up caution tape to keep the kids out of the area that was being painted during recess.
The detailed work begins...
El Stan-o and a volunteer working on city names ...
The finished mural! ... they did lots of detailed work, pictures of trees, sugar cane, rice fields, and other things known or common to the island ... at the top by Monte Cristi is a painting of the school itself.
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