{"id":378,"date":"2010-07-23T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-07-23T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:01:08","slug":"tcpalm-com-students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-mural-at-stuart-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/2010\/07\/23\/tcpalm-com-students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-mural-at-stuart-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"TCPalm.com: Students use their artistic skills to create mural at Stuart Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-at\/\">http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-at\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>By <a title=\"Marilyn Bauer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/staff\/marilyn-bauer\/\">Marilyn Bauer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Posted July 22, 2010 at 12:57 a.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- end #article_header --><!-- end #section_header --><!-- end #section_title_wrapper --><\/p>\n<div id=\"content_wrapper\">\n<div id=\"primary_content\">\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4><a title=\"Stuart Beach Mural Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/\">Stuart Beach Mural Progress<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"photo_gallery_2976\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"STUART - From left, Nicole McDonald, 17, Tracy Canada and Bianca Pond, 17, figure out the placement of a sculpture that will become part of a three-dimensional mural at Stuart Beach while working on it Wednesday morning in Stuart. Canada, an art teacher at Jensen Beach High School, had some of her art class students, as well as members of the JBHS art club, create the clay sculptures for the project. Artist Brenda Leigh, of Stuart, is leading the creation of the mural and is working with the students on it assembly. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/47523\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/0722_loc_mc_mural_01_t160_160.jpg\" alt=\"STUART - From left, Nicole McDonald, 17, Tracy Canada and Bianca Pond, 17, figure out the placement of a sculpture that will become part of a three-dimensional mural at Stuart Beach while working on it Wednesday morning in Stuart. Canada, an art teacher at Jensen Beach High School, had some of her art class students, as well as members of the JBHS art club, create the clay sculptures for the project. Artist Brenda Leigh, of Stuart, is leading the creation of the mural and is working with the students on it assembly. \" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"STUART - After adhering a clay angelfish to the wall of the restrooms at Stuart Beach, Christy Schneyman, 16, removes excess cement from around the edges of the sculpture. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/47524\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/0722_loc_mc_mural_02_t160_160.jpg\" alt=\"STUART - After adhering a clay angelfish to the wall of the restrooms at Stuart Beach, Christy Schneyman, 16, removes excess cement from around the edges of the sculpture. \" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"STUART - Artist Brenda Leigh, center, talks with Jensen Beach High School students Taylor Komara, 18, left, and Nicole McDonald, 17, right, about the placement of a hand-made octopus that will eventually be part of the three-dimensional mural that is being built around the restrooms at Stuart Beach while the students were there to work Wednesday morning. The students used clay to create pieces for the mural in their art classes, taught by teacher Tracy Canada, at the high school. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/47525\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/0722_loc_mc_mural_03_t160_160.jpg\" alt=\"STUART - Artist Brenda Leigh, center, talks with Jensen Beach High School students Taylor Komara, 18, left, and Nicole McDonald, 17, right, about the placement of a hand-made octopus that will eventually be part of the three-dimensional mural that is being built around the restrooms at Stuart Beach while the students were there to work Wednesday morning. The students used clay to create pieces for the mural in their art classes, taught by teacher Tracy Canada, at the high school. \" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"STUART - Brenda Leigh, left, and Tara Dusaterr, 18, move trays of clay fish around the outside of the restrooms at Stuart Beach.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/47526\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/0722_loc_mc_mural_06_t160_160.jpg\" alt=\"STUART - Brenda Leigh, left, and Tara Dusaterr, 18, move trays of clay fish around the outside of the restrooms at Stuart Beach.\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"STUART - Jensen Beach High School art teacher Tracy Canada, center, reaches for a fish to be placed on the mural being built around the restrooms at Stuart Beach. Artist Jennifer Brand is on the left.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/galleries\/2010\/jul\/21\/stuart-beach-mural-progress\/47527\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/0722_loc_mc_mural_07_t160_160.jpg\" alt=\"STUART - Jensen Beach High School art teacher Tracy Canada, center, reaches for a fish to be placed on the mural being built around the restrooms at Stuart Beach. Artist Jennifer Brand is on the left.\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Artist Brenda Leigh, center, talks with Jensen Beach High School students Taylor Komara, 18, left, and Nicole McDonald, 17, right, about the placement of a handmade octopus that will eventually be part of the three-dimensional mural being built around the restrooms at Stuart Beach while the students were there to work Wednesday morning. The students used clay to create pieces for the mural in their art classes, taught by teacher Tracy Canada, at the high school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end .inline_bucket --><!-- end .inline_wrapper --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a title=\"View Full Size\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/photos\/2010\/jul\/21\/254549\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tcpalm.com\/media\/img\/photos\/2010\/07\/21\/20100721-191617-pic-121696695_t160.jpg\" alt=\"After adhering a clay angelfish to the wall of the restrooms at Stuart Beach, Christy Schneyman, 16, removes excess cement from around the edges of the sculpture. \" \/><\/a>Photo by Alex Boerner<\/p>\n<p>After adhering a clay angelfish to the wall of the restrooms at Stuart Beach, Christy Schneyman, 16, removes excess cement from around the edges of the sculpture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- end .inline_bucket --><\/div>\n<p><!-- end .inline_wrapper -->STUART \u2014 A group of Jensen Beach High School students spent most of the day at Stuart Beach Wednesday creating a sculpted, mosaic mural for the surface of the public restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the county\u2019s art in public places program, the mosaic has brought together community members, local artists, county government and Treasure Coast businesses in a beautification that is shaping up to be a city landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Beach-goers stop and stare as they pass the restrooms on their way to the sand, calling out encouragement to the students. County commissioners have been out to photograph the work in progress and many local residents have participated by donating materials from shell rock to seashells for the walls and strands of pearls, which will be carefully arranged in a mermaid\u2019s hair. Local artists have stopped by to help and many merchants have brought over bins of tiny glass tiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Living Reef\u201d has become a true community project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThese students are my Sculpture 1 kids,\u201d said Tracy Canada, art teacher at JBHS. \u201cThey have not had a lot of experience, but this project worked right into the curriculum. They learned how to work with clay making fish, glazing them and firing them. Today we are attaching their fish to the mural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 300 fish are magnificent, as are the moray eels, sea horses, manta rays, dolphin, sea turtles, coral and starfish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students made one fish and then created a mold and were required to make 10 more fish,\u201d said Canada. \u201cThey learned a lot about Florida reef fish and our marine biology teacher worked with them on making them as close to the real species as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drawing student Tara Pusateri, 18, who worked on the project, said it was a great project and very environmental. \u201cI love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original design for the mural, which will be completed by Aug. 31, is by Taylor Komara, 18, who won a design competition and internship that brought in more than 120 submissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to do an underwater scene with a mermaid and use items from the beach to make the mural look realistic,\u201d said Komara. \u201cThen we started sculpting. It\u2019s really amazing, it\u2019s become something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stuart artist Brenda Leigh was named the artist on the project and has worked with the students to make the restrooms a masterpiece. Her expertise in mural painting has added a whole other dimension to the project, as has her pet African gray parrot, who sits on a branch watching all the activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see that we took a beautiful piece of artwork from Taylor and then transformed the concept into a complete design,\u201d she said while buttering the back of a ceramic fish to be mounted just above the bas relief of coral. \u201cI have loved every single day I have come out here. Building the reef was so fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leigh will continue working on the project fitting in the glass tiles and painting the coral reef in Stuart and then moving down to Hobe Sound to work on the second installation, a three-dimensional work about nesting sea turtles. The Hobe Sound project will begin Aug. 15 and be completed in early fall.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Fasano, public arts administrator for Martin County, was the lightning rod behind the project. She sent out the call to artists an, worked on allocating the $15,000 for the Stuart project and securing an additional $5,000 from the Jupiter Island Art Committee for Hobe Sound. When she realized most of the student applications were from Jensen Beach High School, she reached out to Canada to include more of her class in the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want these murals to educate the public on turtle nesting, costal reef preservation and beach restoration,\u201d Fasano said. \u201cWhen we decided not to continue taking shells and coral from the beach, we worked with New Wave Taxidermy who taught the students how to make rubber molds of the coral and shells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fun,\u201d said Nicole McDonald, 17, while deciding exactly where to place a large pink grouper. \u201cThe mural is related to our area and it was interesting to learn about the fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-at\/ By Marilyn Bauer Posted July 22, 2010 at 12:57 a.m. Stuart Beach Mural Progress Artist Brenda Leigh, center, talks with Jensen Beach High School students Taylor Komara, 18, left, and Nicole McDonald, 17, right, about the placement of a handmade octopus that will eventually be part of the three-dimensional mural being built around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/2010\/07\/23\/tcpalm-com-students-use-their-artistic-skills-to-create-mural-at-stuart-beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TCPalm.com: Students use their artistic skills to create mural at Stuart Beach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}