Mural teaches fire safety
I was published again! Yay! :) Maybe this will become a more common thing next semester...we will see what happens....for now, enjoy my article about a local mural created by UVU art students, completely voluntarily, for a local fire station. How better to teach children about the importance of fire safety than with pictures? Forty students from the UVU Art and Visual Communications department created a mural at Orem Fire Station No. 3. They donated their time and artistic skills to a great cause for the community. At the end of spring semester, Casey Vorwaller, Orem City Fire Inspector, asked if UVU students could help make a fire safety mural. Several students submitted possible designs for a wall-sized mural. Out of the many ideas submitted, senior Virginia Tilby’s sketch was chosen. In the fall, Don Seegmiller, coordinator of the Illustration Area in the Art and Visual Communications department, asked students if they wanted to participate. About 40 stu...