NEW YORK—Brooklyn’s Math & Science Exploratory School has more appeal, color, and aesthetics, thanks to five new murals painted by students, staff, parents, and volunteers on Sunday.
“I feel that they all show how people are different, and since they’re all holding hands it’s mostly showing how different people can be united,” said sixth-grader Olivia Logan, standing next to a mural showing five variously colored people, from green to orange, standing in water with a boat labeled Hope between them. “I feel like they hold onto to each other, and they depend on each other. ... They all help each other with their weaknesses and all help each other with their strengths.”
For Logan, the mural’s messages connected with a science project she and her classmates are working on. Instead of just asking for help, they try to compromise and give as well and take. She talked about the water, too.
“It seems more like the water is the kind of thing holding everybody down,” said Logan, motioning with a blue painted hand. “But when they’re all connected, they’re all connected to this boat at the bottom, so that even though they might feel like they’re sinking, their friends help them out and they can all stay together.”
