• Allan Hancock College art instructor John Hood helped coordinate a student-designed mural now adorning a wall of the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum. “All of this was their design,” he says of the nearly two dozen teenagers. “It was a great collaboration.” (Janene Scully / Noozhawk)
  • A teen works on a panel for the Arts Fund mural being added to the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum wall. (Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum)
  • (Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum)
  • (Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum)
  • A student artist gets down into the details on the wall work. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk)
  • An actual tree blocks part of the wall so it was incorporated into the mural: A shadow of the tree is on the wall with a young girl leaning against it while reading a book. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk)
  • With the help of a scissor lift and ladders, artists and students work on the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum mural. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk)

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