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Penn State Abington Draws Community Together through Tile Mural Project
The Penn State Abington Art Club, in corporation with the Abington Art Center, is creating a tile mural to be permanently installed in the Lares Building on campus during the week of March 7, 2005. The eight week project invites members of the local community to explore themes of metamorphosis as they create individual tiles that will be assembled into a completed mural on the final week of the project. Children as young as five years old will participate along with teenagers, adults, and senior citizens. Each will bring a unique perspective to the metamorphosis theme in their own created tile.
The project is under the direction of Yvonne Murphy-Love, art lecturer and advisor to the Penn State Abington Art Club.
Tile Mural Dedication Ceremony
The Penn State Abington campus community and those who took part in the project were invited, Monday, April 18, to the formal mural unveiling and dedication ceremony.
"The mural is an amazing, one of a kind, artistic masterpiece!"
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Weeks 7 & 8 - 2/28/05 through 3/13/05
Dedicated art club students and Abington faculty members returned to a quiet campus over Spring Break to install the mural in Lares cafeteria. Both creativity and strong arms were important at this stage of the project. Days were spent grouting, placing, and cleaning the many ceramic tiles.
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Week 6 - 2/21/05 through 2/27/05
The art studio doors were open and the Abington campus community was invited and encouraged to participate in the project. Students, faculty, and staff were eager to contribute to the mural, which will be a permanent fixture on campus.
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Week 5 - 2/14/05 through 2/20/05
Penn State Abington Art Club members and students invited their families to the campus art studio to make individual tiles that will be part of the finished mural. The day provided a unique opportunity for generations to come together and share time, conversation, and creativity.
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Week 4 - 2/7/05 through 2/13/05
Seniors from the community met with Art Club members at the Abington Art Center. The seniors were asked to think about events in their lives that transformed them in some way and then express these experiences with clay. As the older adults reflected on their lives, the students gained valuable insights into areas of change they have not yet experienced.
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Week 3 - 1/31/05 through 2/6/05
Abington Art Center teen students expressed their individual view of metamorphosis by creating their own tile designs under the direction of Abington Art Center Class Instructor, Corey Antis, and Penn State Abington Art Club members.. The junior and high school students were asked to think about the use of social space and how they respond to visual images in the environment. Their unique perspective is a valuable component of the mural as a whole.
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Week 2 - 1/24/05 through 1/30/05
Art Club members and club advisor, Yvonne Murphy-Love, gathered bright and early (9 a.m.) in the campus art studio to share thoughts, ideas, and suggestions about designing the tiles. They then rolled up their sleeves and got to work molding, cutting, inscribing, and glazing the tiles -each artist expressed his/her personal interpretation of metamorphosis. The tiles will be used next week at the Abington Art Center for a demonstration to the community.
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Week 1 - 1/17/05 through 1/23/05
Members of the club met with artist Katia McGuirk to see her tile mural "The Peace Wall" in Doylestown. Later that day, members visited ceramist Mark Leuders' studio in Philadelphia to learn more about making tiles.
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