Michelle Schwartz

While a Freshman at New York University, I was given the opportunity to design and execute a mural for the 12th floor at Brittany Hall, a dormitory where I resided. I based my design on the logo for the movie 12 Monkeys. I sketched it out on graph paper than blew it up to stencil size. There was a stencil for the main section and then individual monkey stencils. I and another student painted the main section, then each of the other residents of the floor was allowed to use a monkey stencil to add to the chain of monkeys running down the hall along with their names. I recently found some very old digital photos of the project, of which I am still quite proud.

“The 12th Floor” September, 2000