March 2, 1995: Vol26n19: Art majors design a mural for Child Advocacy Center

Children who visit the Child Advocacy Center in downtown Buffalo are
now greeted with a bright, uplifting mural when they walk through the
front door, courtesy of two UB art majors.
	Rachel Pietrzykowski and Duane Schneider designed and painted
the mural to provide a happy, non-threatening view of life to the
children who visit the center, which helps victims of incest and
sexual abuse from infancy to age 18.
	"We wanted something really positive and optimistic," says Jen
E. Henry, center director. They (the children) have been through some
very scary stuff. We wanted something multicultural, with a feel of
the city as well as the country." 
	The students installed the six panels in the waiting room just
in time for the holidays. The mural is the first thing that children
see when they enter the center, located at 560 Delaware Ave. The
summer scene depicts a red barn, an orange apartment house and lots of
children enjoying the outdoors. A girl on rollerblades on an urban
sidewalk, while a boy swings from a tire into a pond filled with
flamingos.
	It also features lots of animals: there's a giant turtle with
flowers on its back, an oversized hippo jumping through a
candy-cane-striped hoop. All are arranged against a green-grass
background.