Ed White Elementary Watershed Mural, 2001
Sketched
on Wall
Initially, the children submitted 348 native flora and fauna drawings by request of the artist in residence, Bejat McCracken, in her call for entries. The children were asked to research natives species of the Seabrook area from books on reserve at several local libraries as well as the school library. Once the drawings were submitted, Bejat selected key drawings to be depicted as they appeared and began to itemize the rest by their dominant flora or fauna. After becoming extremely familiar with the work she began to sketch out a to scale drawing of the mural with all the children's images and ideas in mind. This allowed for every child to have their work contribute to the final product. "The children understood that in order to make the piece work as a whole I would have to combine ideas and that a bluebonnet represented all the children's submitted drawings of bluebonnets."