Teaching mural design is about broadening the student's mind to create for the community, to take ownership and to become stewards for what they have achieved...

• A  MURAL  is  a work of art that is created for a particular site so that it is incorporated into the architecture. The forces of its surroundings influence the composition.

• The  ENVIRONMENT  should bring people together agreeably for some purpose.

• It should  EVOKE  some kind of response . . . joy, amusement, sorrow, beauty, fear, awe.

• The  DESIGN  needs to have some kind of meaning ... self-expression, opinion, and/or social view . . .

• It should bring  AESTHETIC SATISFACTION  that comes with repetition and patterns in the design with unexpected fluctuations and changes to make it interesting and therefore pleasurable.

I really enjoyed conducting these projects. It was a lot of work from planning to execution but very rewarding in the end!