b"murals A mural that starts with the artists earsBy Healthy Trailblazer Journal staff Murals can be expressive for theteaches art and creates murals with The DePaul Catholic School whole neighborhood, he says. It canhis students. When Brother Mark Elder startsturn a room or building into somethingHe has been painting murals for 43 thinking about creating a mural, thethat everybody who comes intoyears. And he has helped make more first thing he does is listen. contact with it can enjoy. than 30, including one in Rome, Italy.He talks to the people in theOnce the community gives him theIf you want to create murals, Brother community where the mural willgo-ahead, Brother Mark has to figureMark says, dont wait. Learn how to be displayed so he can hear theirout all the materials he will need anddraw and paint. Find a mural artist suggestions before making a sketch inhow much they will cost. The muralthat you can help.his Chicago studio. He then shows theis painted indoors on many pieces of sketch to the people to see whetherpolytab, a type of mural cloth. Each they like it. piece has a special spot on the wall where it will be glued.To Brother Mark, painting a mural is aBrother Markwho also likes to beDID YOU form of service, and he tries to get ascalled Buffalo Brois a professor atKNOW?many people involved in its creationDePaul University in Chicago. He as possible.Many murals have been found in the tombs made by the ancient Egyptians more than 5,000 years ago, according to kiddle.co. Some murals in France date back to 30,000 B.C.Philadelphia traces its roots as the mural capital of the world to 1984. That's when mural painting began as a way to teach young people to make public art, rather than spray-painting buildings with graffiti, according to Mural Arts Philadelphia.Page 13 illustration by Maria Rodriguez, 8th grade, Catholic Partnership Schools Healthy CourierS p r i n g 2 0 2 4 | H E A L T H Y N E W S W O R K S . O R G13"