"The
Mix" located on exterior wall of Osco Drug store
at Westport and Main; KCMO
Fall
2002
Osco
Drug requested The Storytellers Inc, Artist Collective
to facilitate the painting of a new community mural.
The Mix highlights Osco Drug's historical involvement
in the development of communities, neighborhoods and
families for the past eighty years. The Storytellers
Inc., Artist Collective, Jackson County Family Court,
Sentenced to the Arts, Combat, KC Futures 150 and Pan-Educational
Institute are the collaborative partners of Osco Drug
in this community effort to bring young people, families,
civil servants and Osco Drug employees together to mix
it up in celebration of the Westport Community and Osco
Drug.
"Cultural
Haven" located on interior wall of Benninghoven
Elementary School; Shawnee, KS
Spring
2000
600
elementary students worked with The Storytellers Inc's
artists to create a lasting tribute to the cultural diversity
of Benninghoven Elementary. For two weeks classes met
in the art room to discuss symbols of culture and to
transfer those symbols into paint onto five panels that
are now posted near the library within the school. The
school principal commissioned Storytellers to facilitate
the project in an effort to kick off a new curriculum
that incorporated cultural education on a daily basis.
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