In Spring 2005 I embarked on a Residency at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Elementary School in Pinellas Park, FL. The art teacher, Betsy Gordon, and I had worked together on another project and she had approached me some months before this to work with her again since she had gotten a grant from the school PTA. The focus of Rawlings Elementary is reading and literature, after its namesake, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling and a Florida resident for most of her adult life. Betsy wanted to have the students choose their favorite book of the school year and draw pictures about the book which the students and I Would then translate into enamel panels to be hung around the school.
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