The Birthday Mural - Dedicated June 7, 2007
Recent State College High School graduate Sarah Huffard (Class of 2007)
combined her
love
of the Library and art to create something with a lasting impact. (Click
here for the books featured in the Mural.)
In addition to shelving books and doing essential work to make the Library
accessible to patrons, Sarah has also done artwork for the Library’s popular
summer reading program.
(Click
here for pictures from the mural dedication).
The mural came to mind when Sarah was looking for a project to help her fulfill
several needs: a graduation project for school, community service hours to
graduate from State High, and a follow-up project for the PA Governor’s School
for the Arts. Luckily, the new Library had a children’s activity room with a
very large, white wall, which Sarah used as her canvas.
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It took Sarah around 140 hours to complete the project. “I have worked on the
mural for 6 months, 2 or 3 days a week for 2 or 3 hours at a time. I took a
break in January to finish my college applications.”
Sarah’s favorite Schlow Library memory: “I remember going to the library ever
since I was little. I can still remember where the ‘Draw 50’ series were
located!”
Click here to read the feature on Sarah in the July 2007 issue of Town & Gown
magazine.
Books from the 1950s
Featured in the Mural
Henry & Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Miss Pickerell by Ellen MacGregor
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty Bard MacDonald
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Rascal by Sterling North
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
Come to the Library and look for pictures from other
books hidden in the mural!
