Northview High art students painting murals for Montana Magnet library

Students from Northview High School are sprucing up Montana Magnet School’s library with murals showing popular children’s book characters.

The first mural, completed recently, shows early children’s book characters such as the Cat in the Hat. Later murals will show characters from intermediate books, like Harry Potter.

Sue Clark, Montana Magnet principal, said the mural project achieves several goals. It’s a cheap way to brighten up the library. It reinforces ties between Northview and Montana, which are both in the same zoning cluster, and also gives Montana students an opportunity to see what they’ll be able to learn in art class when they get to high school.

“We think that by letting our students see them do it, it will make it more real for them,” she said.

The Northview students involved in the project were Lacie Kotouch, Savannah Bonner and Becca Killingsworth.

Kotouch and Bonner were at Montana putting finishing touches on the mural Tuesday.

“It was harder than it looked,” Bonner said.

Kotouch said, “It’s hard to mix the colors and get the right shade.”