Courtesy photo Students in Cathy Uhazie’s art class at Escanaba Junior Senior High School had an opportunity to send a message to COVID. The students wrote
CAROLINE CARLSON
From left, students Cayden Noah, Tim Lee and Riley Smith paint a mural based on the Mandalorian at Escanaba High School. (Courtesy photo via The Escanaba Daily Press)
ESCANABA Escanaba Junior and Senior High School art teacher Cathy Uhazie has been leading her students through muraling projects for 18 years. Over the past three years, Uhazie’s students have painted nine murals throughout the school. Mural topics relate to school activities, groups and clubs.
When the muraling projects began years ago, the artists used donated paint. The age and quality of these supplies often made them unusable, however, and Uhazie began looking for alternatives. The solution came in the form of a grant through Donors Choose, an organization that helps teachers in need of funding for student projects.