With the help of a Gavilan grad, SM elementary students create a
mural depicting a respectful planet
SAN MARTIN – With the unveiling of the new mural, “A World of Respect,” San Martin-Gwinn Elementary students are showing off the results of a year-long project, created in collaboration with students from Gavilan College.
About 30 sixth-graders worked with 10 college students over the course of the past school year, participating in more than 25 mural workshops, talking about the theme of the mural and learning about techniques for painting murals.
Artistic Director Aaron Saucedo, a Gavilan College graduate, led the workshops, with Program Director Arturo Rosetti, who goes by r2row. Saucedo and r2row are a part of the OjO Murals 4 Service, a Gavilan College program that creates murals in communities using a year-long educational process to teach community organizations how to express themselves via mural creation.
In keeping with the theme of respect, during the creation process each participant was encouraged to express his or her ideas of respect. Many of these ideas were integrated into the mural “A World of Respect.”
For more information about the OjO Murals 4 Service program, contact r2row at: oj*******@*******al.net or 846-4974.
