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FIRE Week 2025: MurALL

Documenting the 2025 FIRE Week experience that explored and created public art in Thomas Library

Description of the FIRE week experience

From neolithic cave paintings to modern murals and sculpture, art in public spaces has tremendous power to tell a story, evoke emotions, and to create a sense of shared belonging. For this FIRE week experience, director of the library Dr. Amanda McLellan and art professor Gypsy Schindler partnered to lead a group of 10 students on tours of public art in Springfield, Cincinnati, and Yellow Springs, and design and create a mural in Thomas Library.

Group picture of ten students and two instructors in front of a painted column

This page documents the trips and pictures of the murals, and you will find artist statements from each student included in the left navigation.

Photos of the Week

Fire Week 2025 Recap by librarians