Debi West, our very first customer in 2000 also created the very first GREAT WALL!  It features colorful self-portaits created by her students and the entire staff at her school.  Debi, National Art Educator of the Year 2005, completed her second tile wall at another school in Georgia! 

Sunrise artists create a new wall each year and each artist, any grade level, can purchase a tile for the wall.  We have created a GREAT WALL every year since 2001, the year the school opened!  We'll be creating our 8th wall this fall 2008 and we look forward to having every artwork featured on the wall!  They are truly "GREAT" and so are our artists!

Framed with colorful wooden frames, this school celebrated the seasons of the year by Elden's students. The results are fantastic, don't you think? Two more walls have been installed since the "seasons" tile walls and photos will be added soon.

Make an impact at your school entrance like the one at Panama ES.

They surrounded windows and doorways with artwork and solid color tiles.

Photo 1 & 2 = Nancy Sams, art teacher, created self-portrait tiles with her students.  Natural wood frame borders the tiles in this special location at her elementary school. Nancy created her own special coil tiles as a center focal point indicating the dates! 

Photo 3 =Gina Sullivan, art teacher, had special corner tiles manufactured along with the 5th grades self portraits.  The tiles were installed in honor of the 5th grader graduates at her elementary school.

Incorporating art benchmarks and standards in each grade level project, art teacher, Sandy Bacon, worked with students to create unique works of art for our fundraiser.  The artwork was so nice that we felt it would be a great year to order 108 tiles for a wall.  Since we are a small school, funding was a challenge.  Sandy teamed up with Student Council Advisors, Sharon Quigley and Cathy Harless. We worked together to make it happen.  We came up with the idea of selling SNOWMAN PRETZELS and thought we would sell a couple hundred, taking orders in a presale. We sold 639 pretzels!  Proceeds funded the tile wall and all supplies to install it. After expenses, we made a profit of $894.02!  With the help of of TWO of our friends, four of us spent the weekend dipping, decorating, packaging pretzels.   A parent volunteer and friend installed our wall. We had our grand "unveiling" at our annual Gallery Hop Art Show.  We hope you like our wall and also check out the photos of our famous pretzels....you'll love it!

Middle school students created individual tiles to form one large school mascot mural.

Annie Kruse invites you to view 15 journalistic photos that include an overview of original drawings, planning, installation and completion of their wall.  Thanks Annie!

Our wall was created for the opening of our new school.  The students from kindergarten through fifth grade were instructed to create drawings with the State Visual Arts Standards in mind.  Also, they could draw anything they had learned in their art classes, keeping in mind the different styles of art:  Non- objective, Realism, Abstract or Pointillism remembering the famous works they studied by Kandinsky, Miro, Mondrian, Matisse, O'Keefe, and Seurat.

The wall is a wonderful way to show off the new school!  It gives a nice focus point and a permanent display in the lobby of the school.  The students are excited about the wall and their parents are very proud of them too.  This ia a great public relations project!  We will be having our unveiling ceremony when the school opens in August 2007.

What better way to celebrate than to create a special tile wall!  Kids love seeing their finished masterpieces on the tiles.

With great pride, thirty-five tiles surround the entrance to a special office!