Children's Literacy MuralsThis series of nine murals was commissioned for the Grinton I. Will Library in Yonkers. The theme of the murals centers around children's literacy. Eight of the murals were painted on all sides of the upper portions of approx. 3-feet wide by 10-feet high columns that are in the main area of the department. The bottom portions of the columns, which the library had previously painted in primary colors, were made to look like books by adding faux finished textures and book titles (which were stenciled over the textures). The sides were made to look like the spines or pages of book. Since the department is divided into fiction and nonfiction sections, the four columns that are on the fiction section were painted with murals of children in the setting of the classic children's books they are reading. In the nonfiction section, children read books about transportation, astronomy, dinosaurs, and wildlife. The ninth mural, which is approximately 10-feet wide by 8 feet high, depicts a group of children reading amidst popular children's books. |
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