While at the school, amateur artists created two 6-panel mural paintings to decorate the gym. Several smaller 6-panel paintings were also made and will be donated to hospitals.

Painting butterflies on acoustic ceiling tiles, using acrylics, was the main event on the 26th and the entire school participated. Volunteers included people from IAMA, the Baltimore Ravens, MCI and the church. The colorful tiles will be installed in chemotherapy rooms and other hospital locations to help patients cope with the effects of treatment.

John W. D. Feight, Executive Director and Artist at the Foundation for Hospital Art, (center) coaches a group of young painters on the painting of ceiling tile. Two of the multi-panel paintings are leaning against the stage and a mural panel is on the stage.

John W. D. Feight and Karen Barton, Acting Executive Director of the International Arts Medicine Association (IAMA), discuss the wonderful things FHA is doing. The bottoms of two mural panels are visible in the background.

John W. D. Feight discusses the event with one (of several) Baltimore Ravens' staff members. The staff volunteered to participate and were a big hit with the kids. Many Paintarama shirts were autographed right on the kid's backs! The intensity of the event is evident. The gym floor was completely covered in plastic to avoid paint spill (yes, it can happen) problems. Mural panels are evident on the wall.

A volunteer reviews several completed ceiling tile paintings drying against the wall between sessions. The bright colors help patients cope with painful treatments. Instructions to the student painters were simply to make the butterfly colors symmetrical. They could select any color combination. Volunteers were kept busy filling the paint cups.

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