When water damaged the student murals at Baboquivari High School, in the Tohono O' odham Nations School District, southwest of Tucson, Ariz., the school took digital photographs of the murals that would soon be destroyed when the walls were repaired.
The following fall, however, almost all of the student mural artists returned, and recreated their works, from digital photos, on the halls of the new high school site.
For the Tohono O' odham Nations, these student murals were powerful symbols of culture and identity. Many schools use student mural projects as ways to convey individual student ownership, identity, and a sense of belonging within the larger context of the school setting.
Learn more about the benefits of student mural projects at this Annual Conference session:
# 1451 Student Murals as a Tool of Ownership in Urban Schools Saturday, April 1, 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Presented by Virginia Dean and Roxanne Wueste, Ft. Worth Independent School District, Tex.
See more Tohono O' odham Nations school murals.
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