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Help of a Handful Gets Mural Design on Wall

A few volunteers and staff is all it takes to get the Monarch-Chesterfield Levee wall ready for painting.

When you plan a project with the scope and scale of the , you assume (or at least I did) that every piece will require the proverbial village—hundreds of hands—to complete.  For the most part, this project has been close to that, with more than fifty students, five staff members, one artist and countless volunteers working on it since July 2010. 

However, this past week, it has been a small number actually getting the background colors and paint-by-number design up on the wall for the community to come paint.

With a single paint sprayer and a few volunteers back-rolling, the background color was applied in under 6 hours onto a 500-foot expanse.  Later that same evening, there were four of us working on getting the design set up for artist Stuart Morse to paint.  Equipment needed: two overhead projectors, nineteen transparencies, one paint sprayer, lots of extension cords and even more patience! 

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More people may have been great for moral support, but the village, on that night, really only needed a few residents to get the ball rolling.

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