Moving Towards Greatness: W. D. Kelley Eagles Playground Murals and Mosaics

At the beginning of the year drawing workshops in art classes at the school were held to provide ideas for the final mural design. Twenty-five student drawings were chosen to be reproduced as murals on the exterior walls. Student works included self-portraits of moving, what they want to be when they grow up, and soaring birds & butterflies representing their dreams taking flight. Flowers and vines climb and stretch throughout the design. Some flowers represent blossoming of knowledge. There are also quotes by famous figures, meant to inspire students to work hard.

Portraits included in the mural (in order beginning at main entrance on 28th St, proceeding south onto Oxford Ave, west on Marston St, north onto Cecil B. Moore Ave):
o Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
o Harriet Tubman
o Louis Armstrong
o Barack Obama
o Maya Angelou
o Jesse Owens
o Brian Dawkins
o Marian Anderson
o Zora Neale Hurston
o B.B. King
o Harold Carmichael
o Frederick Douglass
o George Washington Carver
o Gabby Douglas
o Wilma Rudolph
o Venus Williams
o Satchel Paige

These murals were designed to complement the existing mural Reach for Reading by Cesar Viveros, created in 2005. This older mural includes large portraits of
students reading, raising their hands, and dreaming of greatness (represented by flamingos in flight & planets in outer space in background).