Partnering with Education Outside, a San Francisco non-profit that provides science activation and environmental stewardship education outdoors in public schools in low-income areas, garden designer Ethan Bodnar and I volunteered to create collaborative garden murals in local elementary school gardens.
The process was broken up into two phases: a drawing workshop for students and a mural-painting day. The goal is to help students slow down in order to see the shapes, colors, and textures in plants. The drawing workshop provides student ownership of the mural and engages the school community. Student drawings are then used to inspire content and composition for the final mural, which is painted onsite in the garden.
June 2017
Painted with garden teacher, Natalie Boyanovsky
May 2016
Painted with garden teacher, Julia Reed, & the 5th grade class of 2016