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School-Wide Tile Mural Project
School-Wide Tile Mural Project
School Art Project Debuts, February 2007
Transfiguration students are transforming a cement-block wall of their cafeteria into a work of original art, with the help
of 500 pounds of clay and one dedicated artist.
Students from every grade will fill the wall with their individual tile creations, reflecting the common values and religious
education they find every day at Transfiguration. Each grade will create a scene that relates directly to the religion curriculum.
The tiles will be a permanent part of the school.
The actual fun --and messy part-- of the effort is being guided by artist Emily Phillips, a member of the Westchester
Arts Council's Artist Roster. Phillips'public work includes collaborations with Yonkers, the Town of Cortlandt, and Westchester
public schools. Here at Transfiguration, her efforts are part of the overall arts curriculum taught by art teacher Sheila
Amato, under the guiding hand of Principal Audrey Woods. The entire project is expected to be finished sometime in March.
All of this is made possible through a matching grant from the Westchester Arts Council's Arts Partners'program for schools,
under the auspices of the Transfiguration Parents' Guild's Cultural Committee. Committee members Nicky Voyer and Frances Mourani,
along with Guild presidents Lisa Fiore and Jennifer Tucci are leading the effort to make this plan a reality.
For school principal Audrey Woods, the project brings together all of the many parts of the overall curriculum. "It
is art, it is religion, it is language," she said, "and it belongs to everyone. But ultimately the students create
it. That's what makes this enterprise so special." Mrs. Woods noted that the project extends beyond the school walls
and up into Pocantico Hills. Some students visited nearby Union Church to study the famous stained-glass windows designed
by Marc Chagall and fabricated by the Louis Comfort Tiffany Company. "It takes us out into the community to learn,"
she said, "and the children come back to apply that new knowledge in expressions of their faith and spirituality."
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