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CEAP Murals

CEAP:  Character Education Art Project
Secondary School 2004-forward

What happens when you take a group of talented artists and give them a theme like 'character'? Well, you get ART of course, with a good dose of character as well. Since 2004 Secondary Art Teacher Helen Findlay has been working with talented 8th and 9th grade students to create murals to decorate the halls of the Secondary School.
 

Their first project took two years to complete, with students designing and beginning to layout the large murals that now grace the Middle School cafeteria. This group of murals is based on the character virtues of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, justice and fairness, caring, and civic virtue and citizenship. They are woven together with common elements with an emphasis on the art of many cultures. These large murals were an enormous undertaking but they represent the fine efforts of the students that worked on them, and help remind students dining in the cafeteria of the character choices they get to make everyday.

         
 

Their second project is now in place outside of the Secondary Library and has a theme of encouraging reading and appreciation of literature. The students worked to design the piece as a group, and then had to work cooperatively to complete the artwork. They needed to learn to respect one another's ideas and talents while working on this project, so it too was encouraging good character choices.

       

 

This is an on-going project and plans are already being made for the next mural to be completed in the Secondary School. For more information and to see the 'works' themselves visit: http://www.brittonkill.k12.ny.us/findlayweb and click on "Learn and Serve America Grant Projects."

 

 

 

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