Artist in residence, Julie, shows students and community participants how to paint their tiles. Behind Julie is a representation of a mural made up from different tiles.

Two Artists in Residence from Mural Mosaic were working with students at Sedgewick Central High Public School over the last week.

Each student, staff member, and many community members contributed a four-inch square artwork that will be used to create a 12 foot by eight foot mural that will hang in the library.

Vice-Principal Steve Hoyland says the project is part of a celebration of the success that the OLWEUS program has been at the school.

“We are celebrating the building of our community, and working together.”

Hoyland says the real credit for the mosaic project should go to Skyler Burden and Elizabeth Webber.

Artists Denise and Julie led participants through painting their squares, with no subject off the board.

The only specifications were colour palettes, on Thursday, the primary colour was blue.

The project received financial support through Flagstaff Initiative to Relationship and Spousal Trauma (FIRST), and the rest came from the school community itself.

Even Battle River School Division Superintendent Rita Marler was invited to come and paint.