CREATIVITY
Art All Around
Creativity and collaboration brighten the basement halls
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elphian students are covering previously plain basement walls with colorful murals. The art project began in spring 2020 during Delphian’s spring break, when the pandemic led most students to decide to stay on campus and continue their studies rather than go home and not know if they could return. Head of School Trevor Ott encouraged faculty and students to dream up new, creative ideas to stay productive The murals project was one of the ideas born.
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During spring break many students created new murals on empty walls throughout the basement corridors. The new tradition continued during spring break 2021 when students created even more murals. One such piece is a colorful village scene incorporating buildings from around the world on one side, with an explosion of sunshine, color, and rainbows on the other. The mural is over eight feet tall and thirty feet long! We caught up with artist Evie Xia this past summer, to learn more about the creation of one of the murals and her love of art. Delphian: Evie, how did you get involved in painting murals around campus? Evie: This past spring break, many students had to stay on campus due to COVID restrictions. One of my classmates was organizing activities for students to do, and he asked me if I could paint a giant mural in the basement. He said it would be an adventure, so I said ok! But then he only gave me one day to create a sketch of what I wanted to paint. I made a sketch in one day,
