About this mural:
This mural is based on Schmitz Preserve Park, a naturally wooded park with hiking trails near Alki Beach. The students of Alki Elementary drew pictures of plants and animals that they expected to see in the forest. I traced the students’ drawings and included them in the design, which the students painted with teaching artists and parent volunteers. Created in collaboration with Alki Elementary School and Urban ArtWorks.
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398 Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98154 US · Get directions
JP Anderson is an artist, musician, and educator in Seattle, WA.
His art has been exhibited in Seattle and San Diego; and he has taught art, music, English, and Spanish in Seattle, Tacoma, and Tecate, Mexico.
He studied art at Shoreline Community College and Pratt Fine Arts Center. After transferring to the University of Washington for undergrad, he completed his Master’s in Spanish at the University of Salamanca, where he wrote his thesis on Spanish art as a form of protest.
One of his primary art mediums is mural painting, which he currently teaches with Urban ArtWorks in Seattle. Some of the murals he has designed and painted are at Shoreline Community College, Holy Family Bilingual Catholic School, Lowell Elementary School, and Alki Elementary School.