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Community Peace Mural Photo Gallery:
Mural Construction Process
Community volunteers help choose important elements from a collaborative brainstorm about what peace means to them.
McCloud elementary kids drawing ideas for the mural.
McCloud elementary kids drawing.
Mt. Shasta elementary kids drawing dragonflys for the mural.
Local artists life drawing for the Peace Mural figures.
Community members modeling for the artists.
Ken Mickelson life drawing for the figures in the Peace Mural.
Artist Chris Messer drawing August Vacarro modeling for the Peace Mural.
Artists helping transfer the drawing to the ceramic mural.
Mt. Shasta Elemtary kids joining hands.
Creating test tiles with community members.
Creating pieces for slab construction.
Beginning wet clay slab construction.
Wedging clay for slab construction; getting crazy.
Wet clay slab construction.
Finishing up the 4x8 wet clay slabs.
Transfering drawing to wet clay slab.
Transfering drawing to wet clay slab.
Preparing the drawing for transfer to wet clay slab process.
Tile back scoring.
Sculpting figures on the front of tiles.
Jack Shaw sculpting hand on tile face.
Jenny Johnson sculpting the front of tiles.
Lots happening: people are finishing the drawing while others are scoring tile backs.
Jerry Smida entertaining one of many times during the mural construction.
Glazing bisqued tile.
Betty overglazing an underglazed tile.
Globbing cement into scored backs of finished tiles.
Positioning tile into cement.
Pressing tile into cement.
Mural Artist Jenny Johnson; "Cementing is tough on the knees."
Jenny Johnson and Donna Bringenberg placing the final mural tile into postion.
Leaning the mural up against the wall for final stages of grouting and storage.