Dulaney High School’s (DHS) business program is developing a mural on the third floor. The proposed mural will showcase DHS’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program for years to come.

The mural is a collaboration between DHS’s Advanced Management and Marketing II classes. Each year, the classes create a cross-curricular project highlighting some aspect of the business department. DHS business department chair and marketing teacher Damon George added that the project is majorly student-led.

“The instructions were quite vague, with the onus on the Advanced Management students to develop a plan to serve as project managers to ensure proper implementation,” George said.

The Advanced Management students submitted an RFP (request for proposal) to the Marketing II class. In the Marketing II class, students broke into teams and crafted mural concepts that were shared between classes.

“My class shared their ideas through professionally written documents with mock-up visuals of the murals attached,” Jamie Bare, DHS’s Marketing II teacher, said.

The project has been developing since mid-January. The mural depicts a group of professionals applying CTE skills and a reflection of a DHS student through a mirror. DHS Advanced Management student Neveah Brown mentioned the purpose of the design. 

“It’s going to try to encourage people to take CTE so they can be like the successful people who are shown in the mural,” Brown said. 

The mural will be painted throughout April by recruited interested artists from various levels of DHS’ art department. It was anticipated the mural would be completed by the middle of this month. The timeline was altered due to problems with finding artists.

Originally, George intended to collaborate with AP art students but was unable to do so because of logistic complications. George added that they were in the process of interviewing referred potential artists in lieu of AP art students and arranging a time to meet to begin the project.

“Our hope is because we have such a clear idea of what we want created; our hope is that once we get the artists together, we’ll move quickly from there,” George said. 

The mural, which will be painted on the lockers near Kevin Wheeler’s room, is tentatively anticipated to be revealed in May, just before the seniors graduate on May 28th.

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