Wanting to make a lasting, artistic impression on future generations who will enter through the Spring-Ford 5-6 Grade Center’s doors, fifth-and sixth-grade students at the school recently completed a mosaic tile project that tested their design skills, while giving the community something alluring to look at. This is the second phase of a project previously began by the students’ fifth-grade peers.

Sixth-grade students in Cheryl Kramer’s art class started the fused art project in 2011. With the help of professional Philadelphia mosaic artist Jessica Gorlin Liddell, students created individual tiles of colored glass that complemented the designs created earlier. Once the students completed the design phase, Liddell returned the tiles to her glass studio for firing, also known as “fusing.”

Robyn Burckhardt, Art’s Alive! Program co-coordinator, said the project allowed students to think critically and work together as a team to create a large-scale work of art that would be seen by all who visit the building.