Seeger made the letters and asked the children to make something that fit the theme for that letter, such as A is for agriculture, E is for eggs, I is for ice cream, K is for kayaks, L is for lobsters, O is for oysters, R is for rivers, T is for (Tiverton) tigers, Y is for yacht club, and Z is for zipcode, in this case 02878. “Everything in that mural is something they could find in Tiverton. The alphabet mural in the new library on Roosevelt Way, “kind of became a Tiverton alphabet,” Seeger said. Now a private residence, the mural was not portable and could not be removed from the walls. Some 20 years ago, she worked with town children to craft an alphabet mural in the stairwell into the children’s room of the Essex Library on Highland Road. The alphabet mural is not the first Seeger has done in a town library. The answers: The landscape, the water, the woods, the people. They sculpted some 2,000 faces that make up the bark of the 26 trees in the 17.5 foot-long 'Trees of Tiverton' mural, and the creatures and things that make up the 36 foot-long alphabet mural.Ĭeramic artists Mika Seeger and Peter Geisser, who have worked on projects together throughout the area for the last 15 years, came up with the designs after asking residents at public charettes: “What makes Tiverton, Tiverton?” The projects took five years from concept to finished product and involved meetings with thousands of students and older citizens of the town who took part in the hands-on work. in the library’s main reception area and the children’s room, where the oldest person in the crowd will be asked to place the last piece in the “Trees of Tiverton” mural in the lobby, and the youngest asked to place the last piece in the “Tiverton Alphabet” mural in the children’s room. TIVERTON - Thousands of ceramic shapes, crafted by thousands of hands of residents, make up two murals in the new Tiverton Public Library, but they won’t be complete until the last piece is placed in each one this weekend.Ī 'mural completion ceremony' is slated for Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

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