MBJH sidewalk artists

Each spring to end the eighth grade world history unit on the Renaissance period, students recreate works from the great Renaissance artists on the sidewalks around MBJH. Prior to creating their masterpieces, students are placed in groups of three to four with one “lead” artist who selects the work and sketches it on paper as a guide for their block on the sidewalk.

Using chalk and sponges, Helen Pruet’s advanced history classes recreated panels from Michelangelo’s work in the Sistine Chapel along Overbrook Road, from the tennis courts to the entrance of the Junior High. Some chose the Genesis panels, the seers, or the ancestors of Christ from the ceiling while others chose from the Last Judgment or the altar wall.

Students from Julian Kersh and Beth Lippeatt’s classes recreated art from Leonardo, Botticelli, Raphael, Donatello, Albrecht Durer, Pieter Brugel, Peter Paul Rubens and Titian along the main entrance to the school to the lunchroom entrance.