WARRIOR RUN TIMELINE

WARRIOR RUN TIMELINE

Acrylic Paint on Polytab

2014

42’ x 120’

Warrior Run High School; 4800 Susquehanna Trail, Turbotville, PA

This area of central Pennsylvania is steeped in history. On the far left stands a large, trompe l’oeil statue of an eagle, which is the school’s mascot. The mural depicts this history in six ‘chapters’. The timeline begins with the area’s native people and travels forward in time from a 1778 revolutionary war battle to the present day paying tribute to the railroad and agricultural industries along the way. Over the course of 3 months, I worked with virtually every student in the school district as well as community members to conceptualize and paint the mural. Over 1,000 people contributed to the project.

This project was sponsored and funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Perry County Council for the Arts, and the Warrior Run School District.

A look at the process

Over 1,000 students and community members worked to create Warrior Run Timeline. The mural references the history of this area of central Pennsylvania starting with the areas first inhabitants and spanning through the centuries to the present.

Warrior Run High School has a huge art room with an attached gallery. During the production of the mural, the gallery became our studio.

Every period a new group of student painters would come in and pick up where the previous group had stopped.

This is the art teacher and I laying out the sheets for the eagle mascot on the gym floor.

Four of the six ‘chapters’ laid out on the gym floor.

At the end of the day after installing the eagle.