Thank you to Aisha Zakiya, who took these professional photos of our murals for the VI Daily News. (I found them online - somehow I lost my photos of the finished murals!It occurred to me that I never finished the mural story. We finished mural #2 in 2012, and during the summer I added
bullnose tile as a border to the top edge of both murals (the kind of narrow tile that curves to the wall - check out your bathroom tile and you'll see what I mean).Then my very dear friend Jestina, our Drafting teacher, helped me grout the two murals. Really, how many friends do you have who will volunteer to show up during the summer to grout? At about 6:30 or 7 AM? VOLUNTEER to do this? Because she knew I needed
help, and knew I also wouldn't ask. WHAT a wonderful friend!!!!!! (And I miss her greatly.)This was my swan song - finishing the two murals, creating a small underwater mural outside my classroom, and then retiring and moving on to other things. Like touring the world.
Anyway, so here are the pictures of all the murals, finished and grouted. Signs have been put up listing the names of the student designers, all the student
workers (every single student!), and the name of the principal. Oh yes, and the art teacher. And the title of the mural. Plus my advanced art students created a brochure for the BCB Mural Walk. Because they needed another writing project, and we agreed that there was some info we just wanted to share with people who looked at our murals.What do teachers do when they retire? Miss their students! Really, I miss being surrounded by crazy teenagers.
