San Diego Natural History Museum
Five-story museum atrium crowned by a giant hand-painted mural of regional wildlife.
A working artist and six teenagers from San Diego High School had just two weeks to cover a blank, five-story wall of the San Diego Natural History Museum's atrium while the public wandered through below. The guide follows Eva Struble, who teaches drawing at San Diego State and sketched Iron Mountain, local leopard sharks and native plants used by the Kumeyaay people rather than any fossil from the collection downstairs. You'll hear how she handed rollers to her student crew to help fill in the color, and how the paint itself came donated from an ordinary local company rather than a fine-art supplier. Tilt your head back in the atrium and see what filled that wall the museum had left blank for years.
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