The Fontbruant college in Saint-Porchaire is getting a makeover. Around twenty students have just participated in the creation of several giant frescoes on the walls of the establishment with the help of street artist Super Bourdi.
There are 27 fifth-grade students who have swapped their pens for paintbrushes. For a week, these middle school students from Saint-Porchaire, in Charente-Maritime, created three frescoes on the walls of the school.
I have a fairly benevolent universe where I talk about love, ecology and living together.
Super BourdiStreet artiste
There we find Bobby and Angie, the favorite characters of the street artist Super Bourdi who came to supervise them for this initiative. But the support is not limited to the brushstroke and concerns the values that the artist wishes to share: “I have a cartoon universe, quite benevolent, where I often talk about love, ecology and living together. I try to do four or five projects like this in schools and each time, in the classes in which I intervene, there are a few who have a revelation and they realize that painting or graffiti is something they would like to do.”
The street artist Super Bourdi supervises the twenty students from the Saint-Porchaire college to create these frescoes
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Ecology and selective sorting are, for example, Randy’s department, yellow paintbrush in hand:
I am painting what will become a yellow trash can. This is to explain how to sort waste into the correct bins.
RandyFifth grade student
In the refectory, but also near the lockers or at the entrance to the college, the murals are multiplying and brightening up the establishment. The principal is very favorable to this project from an educational point of view.
It gives them a feeling of self-esteem, surpassing themselves to showcase their talent.
Dorothée MainilPrincipal of the Fontbruant college in Saint-Porchaire
These giant frescoes are not just there to color the walls, they carry messages that the students have discussed in class. Example : Your phone is put away ? Reconnect with reality. Morgane, fifth grade student, explains the process: « We decided to create a phrase to say to be careful and look ahead, instead of always being glued to the screens. »
As for Super Bourdi, he already has meetings with other educational establishments in the region and is preparing an exhibition of his works in Paris next year.
Report by Arnaud Connen de Kerillis and Marc Millet.
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The Saint-Porchaire college is getting a makeover. Around twenty students have just participated in the creation of several giant frescoes on the walls of the establishment with the help of street artist Super Bourdi.
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