PHOTOS: Perry Hall High 'Love' Mural Heals Through Handprints
Students, staff and community leaders gathered Thursday morning for a ceremony to commemorate the student shooting on Aug. 27.
A mix of tears, laughter and applause accompanied a Thursday morning mural painting and celebration in Perry Hall High School's cafeteria. Its goal, less than five months after 17-year-old Daniel Borowy was shot and injured, was to take a space once filled with violence and fill it with love. Over the past week, artist Michael Owen of the Baltimore Love Project worked with art students in the creation of a mural that spelled "LOVE" on the cafeteria wall. About 450 students and staff, who normally participate in the first scheduled lunch, during which the shooting occurred, contributed painted handprints to the mural on Thursday. The mural was significantly different from Owen's past outdoor projects in Baltimore City neighborhoods. "We're…
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Sarah Deacon
7:24 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Love through art. What could be better! So proud of my alma mater and of my former art students who were involved in this awesome project. more ›