Tom Sawyer Art Fence outside of the Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum - photo by Alan Warren from YourHoustonNews[/caption]When Mark Twain's classic character Tom Sawyer was faced with whitewashing a fence on a summer day, he made the task look so appealing that his friends begged to help. Soon Tom was rolling in wealth, and the fence had three coats of whitewash.
Like Tom, those going to the Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum (AYAM) are faced with “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high,” but co-curators Leann Newton and Kathy Goss rose to the challenge of calling attention to the museum.
Tucked away at the back of The Westchester Academy of International Studies and behind Spring Branch ISD’s south transition campus, the museum can be hard to find.
So Newton and Goss turned to Spring Branch ISD art students for help. Now the fence (made of wire in this case) is covered with banners of art from students at 30 Spring Branch ISD schools.
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