4266 - In Awe.
After school, my co-worker Mrs. Ski and I set to work hanging up the Annandale Elementary School Collaborative Project. It was a process to get this far. First all students in first through fourth grade made one paper quilt square inspired by the work of Libs Elliott. Each class was assigned a color scheme, allowing the squares to flow nicely through the rainbow. Next Mrs. Ski and I glued the squares from our respective classes to black backing paper. Then I attached 3M heavy duty double stick tape the the back of every section. This portion of the project took about 3 weeks to complete.
The next portion of the project was to hang the art. After much deliberation and measuring, we found the perfection of wall, up high in the cafeteria. This central location would insure that all students would get to see it every day and it would be out of reach, which hopefully means that it will stay up for a while. Once the location was secured, we needed to get the consent of our trusty custodian to use the tall ladders to hang the art ourselves. The custodians were hesitant, even offering to hang the art for us. However, not wanting to take them away from their job or give up control on how the mural was hung, we opted to do the work ourselves. The custodians checked in on us multiple times to make sure we were still doing okay.
Within an hour, with the Kids Club kids oohing and aahing over our progress as we went, the 50ft mural was hung. Bonus, no injury came upon either of us!
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