About

Modeled after an earlier project by Mikayla and her art class, Mikayla’s Voice developed the “Wheels of Friendship” painting program to give other groups of youth this amazing opportunity. When classes meet to develop the concept for their own collaborative painting, they enjoy valuable discussion about differences, understanding and acceptance.

Together they decide how their painting will remind fellow students ~ current and future ~ to embrace everyone in their school. Through collaboration on the concept and creation of the painting itself, students from kindergarten through high school learn the value of working together and how everyone brings their own ideas and talents to the project.

Kaya’s Kaleidoscope is created when students complete their own individual canvases that work together in an interactive, almost puzzle like design. Symbolic of school communities, every canvas is as essential to the mural as each student to their school.

“I want people to feel full-hearted when they see our painting.”
3rd grade student