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Bird Rock Elementary Fifth
Grade Legacy Mural Project
Design by: Betsy Kopshina Schulz
Mosaic by: Schulz, Fifth Grade Students and Parent Volunteers
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Case Study (PDF Format 5.7MB)
Betsy Schulz worked with parents
and PTA members from Bird Rock Elementary to design a mural
for the 5th grade class. Every year this graduating class
creates a tile or painted mural as a gift to the school.
The mosaic pieces were applied to a mesh and the completed
mural was applied to the new library wall. The students
pressed quotes and words into the tiles to celebrate reading.
The lines of the tiles represent the ocean waves, and the
sand and rocks underneath. The project was funded by the
PTA and private donors and cost about $5200 for design
labor and materials and took one month to complete.
(1) The library was built with a sea motif. In
order to enhance the wavy line of blue stucco Betsy Schulz designed
three colored lines of tile. The top line represents the ocean waves,
the center white line, the sand, and the reddish bottom line, the
rocks of the ocean floor.
(2,3) The students pressed quotes and words into the clay to create tiles
that celebrate the reading opportunities the library offers.
(4) Betsy glued tiles, stones, and shells to mesh
and cut it up into small sections for the students to apply.
(5,6) Eighty-four students made and applied sections of tile to the wall,
giving them ownership and bragging rights.
(7,8) Parent volunteers grouted the mosaic with
blue morter on top and white on the bottom two layers.
(9) The final Bird Rock Elementary Fifth Grade
Legacy Mural.
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