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10/11/2007 12:57 PM
High school art students paint murals in
municipal building auditorium:
6/5/2007
EllwoodCity.org staff
The auditorium in the Ellwood City Municipal building
is undergoing a facelift thanks to the local Ellwood City and Riverside high
school art students. Not your normal repainting or wallpapering project,
but an intricate painting project by a handful of art students.
Planning started in January
2007 with the help of Jonica Walters, gifted student teacher at Lincoln High
School, Borough Manager, Dom Viccari, and the Lawrence County Community
Enrichment members. After a handful of meetings with Riverside art
teachers, the group decided to transform the white walls of the municipal
building auditorium into creative murals of historical Ellwood City.
A large mural of Henry
Hartman, founder of Ellwood City, could be found on an auditorium wall,
accompanied by various other historic murals. A border of barbwire around
the auditorium walls was painted to honor Issac Ellwood, one of the
inventors of barbed wire. The murals were painted with the aid of old
postcards and photos of Ellwood City.
EllwoodCity.org stopped in
Tuesday afternoon and found Lincoln High School art students, Nikki DeCaria,
Devon Klingensmith, Kayla Burgess, Katy Hiser, Jacob and Jocelyn McCrumb,
Melissa Hinkle, and Dragon Milcivec (an exchange student from Germany) hard
at work with Raquel Wratny, art teacher at Lincoln, supervising the mural
painting project.
The
completion of the mural project is not known at this time, but the students
will continue to work diligently in showing off a little bit of Ellwood
history with every brush stroke to the auditorium walls.
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pictures)
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