Don Bosco Kindness Tree Idea Expands and the "Don Bosco Art Gallery" blooms!

At Don Bosco School where Principal Cecilia O'Toole-Frederick inspired the Kindness Rocks Project idea at the beginning of her school tenure last fall, Mrs. O'Toole-Frederick had another idea this year:  An indoor Kindness Tree Mural.

After discussing this with WPU Arts Integration PIR Triada Samaras, WPU PIR Robin O'Brien, and Don Bosco art teacher Patty Kaminski, this idea has become a reality. 

Art teacher Ms. Kaminski and her students have been painting the mural this fall in the front hallway of the school building.  The original "sketch" for the Kindness Tree (September 2018) was the image below:

Ms. Kaminski and her students started with this concept and expanded upon it with acrylic paint together with help and guidance from PIR Triada Samaras. In the first phase they removed the paper sketch of the trunk (above) and began painting the trunk (image below).

After the trunk was completed, Ms. Kaminski and her students worked on grass, flowers, leaves and new text all of which is hand-painted on the wall.

Now, the Kindness Tree is fully grown!

Last week, Ms. Kaminski and Ms. Samaras added the DB Founding Father Thomas Jefferson art project to the hallway.

A collection of Aztec-inspired student artworks on square metal foil tiles are now being added to the hallway (see below.) 

A large-scale portrait of American Revolutionary War hero, Deborah Sampson will be added next.  "The Don Bosco Art Gallery" is in full bloom!