Contribution to my community

The summer program at El Club del Barrio, Inc. was great, I enjoyed every minute of it. My internship site for the summer of 2007 was at the Peace Playground, located next to Lady Liberty Academy (on Pennsylvania Avenue in Newark, NJ). I made a mural with an artist from the Newark Arts Council, her name was Ms. Beatrice, a graduate from Montclair State University. On the first week of my internship we went paint and cleaned the wall in which the mural was going to be placed. Then another intern, Charles Russell, and I primed the wall with white paint. The following day Ms. Beatrice and I began to transfer the drawing to the wall. From that point on we started painting, changing some of our ideas and adding more details to the mural. This experience has been one that I will never forget. This is the first time I ever did a mural and painted something that was going to stay with the community.