Hands Down! Murkland students lend a hand to North Common Garden

Murkland kids were anxiously counting down the days until summer vacation when suddenly, an awesome art making opportunity grew out of no where! Actually, it was planted by Mill City Grows; a local non profit organization that plants urban gardens, plans accessible festivals for urban neighborhoods and educates the public in eating healthy.

Murkland students were happy to discover that Mill City was planting a new garden right in our backyard! The North Common Garden is gorgeous and had a successful summer growing delicious leafy goods.

We were lucky to lend a hand in the process. We printed our handprints to create leaf-like texture on the beautiful wooden signs below. Thank you to "Brick Bottom" artist Dan Rocha for making it happen!

Mr. Rocha designed, shaped and primed the signs before he came to visit us at the Murkland. Then he showed us what to do and we got to it.

Thank Mr. Rocha! We had a great time adding handprints and learning about artists in the real world. We even made a mini version of the garden to decorate the garden in front of our school.

Check out Mill City's website for more information about urban gardens http://www.millcitygrows.org

And check out Dan Rocha's website to see more of his artwork.

http://brickbottomartists.com/artist/163