Krieg unveils mural in OCHS library

By: Gracie Hart Brooks | Orange County Review
Published: December 28, 2011

Earlier this month, the Orange County High School Library held an open house and unveiled its new mural. Mixed media artist Susan Krieg painted the mural, which depicts communication throughout time. The mural begins and ends with people and includes cave drawings, smoke signals, birds, satellittes, telephones and modern communication like facebook, twitter and video games. Krieg said the mural took six-seven weeks to paint, but overall she said she put in 360 hours of work painting and designing the piece. Approximately 70 students were also involved in the creation of the mural, coming up with hundreds of possible images to use and helping paint the piece. “It was a lot of fun for me,” Krieg said. “My favorite part is seeing students with a brush and knowing they are in a different world for a minute.” Krieg is an internationally known artist with a studio in Virginia Beach. Pictured, from top to bottom, Orange County High School Principal Doug Duncan, far right, speaks about the vision for artist Susan Krieg’s mural in the school’s library as Arts Center in Orange Director Laura Thompson, Krieg and Orange County Public School Superintendent Dr. Bob Grimesey look on. One piece of the mural features telephones throughout history. OCHS librarian Faith Olen and Krieg cut the ribbon for the mural as Thompson looks on.

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