C3 Design Volunteers

Artist Steve Duffendack's two kids attend Académie Lafayette, an award-winning French-language immersion charter school in KCMO. The school's academically-successful program has attracted a large number of students, and space has become a limited commodity. The school purchased a second building in the historic Hyde Park community in midtown KC to serve as the new campus for K through 2nd grade students.

With the new campus, the opportunity arose for Steve to decorate the library with murals, and he eagerly took on the job. The mural design features kids, animals and mystical creatures all engrossed in reading books–a subject matter that's a perfect fit for Steve's style of whimsical children's illustration.  After painstakingly tracing on the walls, Steve called in a group of volunteer painters, including some parents and other C3 artists. Good times–along with sore backs and arms–were had by all!

Volunteers pictured (from upper left): Alise Dodds-Duffendack, Spencer Duffendack,  Fred Briseno, Ed Schlittenhardt, Michelle Rader, Franny O'Gorman and Steve Duffendack (also pictured Anna Duffendack).