Making Waves
celebrates the shared values of literacy and learning as well as the treasured diversity of the King Arts community. Images of waves provide a fantasy surface on which books rest, illustrating the importance of reading and literacy. Ripples of student faces streaming throughout the mural mark the continual ebb and flow of successive classes, cycles and rhythms of learning that continue to move us forward. Our richly diverse student body and scholarship prepare students for effecting change in the world around them. Quotes from well known authors and activists frame the waves providing inspiration, while a hidden cat, several mice, a bookworm and contemporary technologies provide added visual interest.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of a true education.
Anne Frank
Our lives are different and yet the same.
Frederick Douglas
Once you learn to read you will be forever free.
Cesar Chavez
What better book can there be than the book of humanity?
Dr. Seuss
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Maya Angelou
In diversity there is beauty and strength.
Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere.
This mural was funded by the generosity of Foundation 65 and the Evanston Arts Council.
