Providence, R.I. -- Visitors to Alumni & Family Weekend at Providence College were stopped in their tracks by the sight of a giant mural being painted in the Ruane Atrium of the Concannon Fitness Center.
“It’s outrageous. It’s beautiful. I love it!” said Stephen Grupinski, who was accompanied by his daughter, Michelle Grupinski ’12(Ronkonkoma, N.Y.)
Grupinski was one of hundreds of alumni, parents, students, and friends who couldn’t resist grabbing a small cup of acrylic paint and using his fingertips to dab it on numbered and lettered spaces on the mural, thereby leaving his own mark on Alumni & Family Weekend, which took place February 10-12.
The mural features three student-athletes -- Emily Sisson ’14 (Chesterfield, Mo.), Hannah Davidson ’12 (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), and Laura Nagel ’14 (Napier, New Zealand). They were photographed during a cross-country competition by Dominic Channon ’13 (Nelson, New Zealand), an art student and member of the cross country team.
Channon’s photograph was adapted for the mural by Peter Tigler, an artist based in Santa Monica, Calif. Behind the image of the three PC student-athletes, Tigler added the image of three ancient Greek runners in the Panathenaic Games in Athens, taken from a vase dating to 333 BC.
“PC asked me to come up with a project that everyone could participate in,” said Tigler. “We put the ancient and the modern together and came up with this mural.”
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Watch a time-lapse video of the mural painting process.
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