Henry Ford Comm College creates murals for local hospital

metromode, 9/24/2009

There are seven new murals in Detroit, thanks to Henry Ford Community College.

The Dearborn-based college's Ceramics Club worked with seven current and former students to create the murals in Midtown Detroit's Children's Hospital of Michigan and Lessenger Middle School.

Henry Ford students worked with three classes at Lessenger Middle School to create two murals of three panels each. They are now mounted in the Neurology Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Michigan and in the school's main hallway.

The ceramic murals are called tessellations, a type of pattern design that forms a mosaic pattern by repeating similar shapes.

"It's a system that always fits together, no matter how you put it together in the picture," says Steve Glazer, an art instructor at Henry Ford Community College.

Source: Steve Glazer, an art instructor at Henry Ford Community College
Writer: Jon Zemke

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