Lucy Craft Laney Elementary
School Mural, 2018-19
Fall 2018 and spring 2019, I was an artist in residence
representing JuxtapositionArts at Lucy Craft Laney
Elementary School in North Minneapolis. We
partnered with Lucy Laney’s Beacons program to offer
after-school programming that allowed 3rd-5th
graders to learn how to ideate, design, and create an
actual mural that would go in the school’s multi-
purpose room. This mural was meant to be inspired by
JXTA’s “Who We Are” mural that was torn down the
previous year. In this mixed media mural, students
able to work with mixed media materials to create
a mural that captured the essence of
the students at Lucy Laney.
Other artists on this project also included Zainab
Youngmark, portrait photographer and teaching
assistant, and Jahliah Holloman, studio and
teaching assistant.
