More than a dozen people were crowded in an octagonal room stuffy with the smell of paint fumes Saturday at Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansig, to paint 10 murals for the 2010 Stanley S. Levandowski Sr. Memorial Zoo Mural project.
More than a dozen people were crowded in an octagonal room stuffy with the smell of paint fumes Saturday at Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing. The volunteers were there to paint 10 murals for the 2010 Stanley S. Levandowski Sr. Memorial Zoo Mural project.
“At least 10 people may have touched each painting, and we’ve had as many as three working on a painting at a time,” said Mary Katherine Quasarano, the project coordinator and a Holt resident.
Saturday was the project’s first community paint. A workshop was held to help volunteers from the community understand how to paint the 10 murals.
Grand Ledge resident and artist Tony Hendrick lead the workshops. After each painting session, a new group of people comes in and either adds to what already is painted or paints over what once was there.
“It keeps changing and changing, and when it’s all done, you’re like, ‘Wow,’” Hendrick said.
The murals will be unveiled in June during the Potter Park Zoo’s annual Zoo Days and displayed in the farmyard area.
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