Photos: Murals of Paxon Hollow Middle School

Check out the handful of murals displayed on the walls of Paxon Hollow Middle School.

By Jennifer Kim
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March 26, 2012

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The whale mural was painted in 1998. The inspiration for this mural is the now famous Whaling Walls painted by Robert Wyland. Wyland, a native of Washington, is an avid environmentalist and his work, often painted on a grand scale on the sides of buildings, is intended to change people's attitudes and perceptions toward marine ecology and preservation.

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The whale mural was painted in 1998. The inspiration for this mural is the now famous Whaling Walls painted by Robert Wyland. Wyland, a native of Washington, is an avid environmentalist and his work, often painted on a grand scale on the sides of buildings, is intended to change people's attitudes and perceptions toward marine ecology and preservation.

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This music stand mural was painted in 2000. It's a replica of a famous painting by artist Paul Klee. Klee was an artist from Switzerland whose work reshaped the cubist movement and initiated the Bauhaus and Blue Rider groups of the 1050s and 1960s. Paul Klee is one of the artists whose work is the inspiration for many student projects at Paxon Hollow.

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This mural is located in the hallway from the first floor to the ground floor leads to the sixth-grade classrooms.

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BROOMALL–Paxon Hollow Middle School's Art Club hosted a guided mural tour last week. Did you know there are more murals than you can count on one hand at the school?

Three seventh-grade students–Leigh Delaney, Isabella Paganezza, and Elizabeth Rains gave the private art tour. Each mural is created and painted by students at Paxon Hollow Middle School that date as far back as the late 1990s to 2011.

Paganezza shared she liked all the murals "because all our murals have a different meaning." But if she had to choose, her favorite would be the six pillars of character mural, the most recent mural.

But Rains liked the oldest mural the best, which is the whale mural dated back to 1998. Leigh, who is also in the choir and orchestra, also noted she liked the music stand mural in the music hallway because "it gives us something to look at."

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