2024
Wall drawing with latex paint and Krink permanent markers
Created by sixth grade students in Ryan Anderson’s English Class: Bryan A., Jimena A., Noe A., Seb B., Ian C., Addilyn C., Val C., Harmony H., Peyton K., Orlando M., Edith Q., Julian R., Emmanuel R., Sirah S., Josue V., Anthony C., Vega G.
The middle school portables
Sixth grade students wanted to change the feeling of our middle school buildings, so our artists-in-residence asked them to choose part of the watershed that felt like middle school. The students chose a swamp.
Swamps can be strange, murky, and unknown. Middle school sometimes feels strange, murky, and unknown, but it is also an important place of growth and change.
Middle school is an in-between time when kids move from childhood to adolescence. Like middle school, a swamp is in between—not land but not water. Some animals in the swamp—like froglets that still have tails—are between childhood and adulthood. Like middle school students, the creatures in this mural are still growing and changing.
Process