PS 939 Sunset School of Cultural Learning
Brooklyn, NY 2025

All of Us

This 40-foot long mural contains 7 graphs, which provide a snapshot of the PS939 community.

In Spring 2025, The Painted Cloud led a multidisciplinary, community-rooted Family Engagement project with the K–4 students of PS 939 and their families.

The project emphasized connection—between students, caregivers, and the broader school community—and aligned with PS 939’s mission: to prepare students of all backgrounds and abilities to be engaged global citizens through community and self-expression.

The project was completed over 3 family engagement workshops to create a video + song, mural, and animated logo.

Collaborators on translation::
Annie Yuan Zhuang
Farah Barqawi
Laura Rivera Ayala

Video + Song

Mural:

Animated Logo

Graphs:

Gallery:

Video + Song

The original song and music video were co-created using the positive traits shared by caregivers as lyrical inspiration. Students read the affirming traits and recorded them in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. During family engagement workshops, students recorded themselves listening to the beat, which captured the energetic vibe of the song before the lyrics were finalized. Students then had the opportunity to engage with a green screen during the workshops, trying out spinning, jumping, and dancing to the rhythm of the song, while chanting the positive traits. This playful interaction with the beat and green screen footage became a foundation for the final music video, which features students in dynamic, creative movement, bringing the collective energy of the community to life.

Read the lyrics here.

Mural

The mural and data-inspired artwork:
The mural is a central part of the project, co-created by students and caregivers. It features abstract art and incorporates data-inspired artwork—visual representations of the community’s positive traits gathered from the Family Questionnaire. Pie charts, bar graphs, and other graphic elements depict patterns across the community, such as the most common traits and family traditions. These graphical elements are creatively blended into the mural, transforming raw data into a colorful and dynamic visual representation of the community.

In addition to traits, the mural also reflects other key insights shared by caregivers in response to additional questions from the Family Questionnaire, such as favorite family activities, and terms of endearment said at home. These responses are visually integrated into the mural, offering a holistic representation of the PS 939 community that celebrated not only individual identities but also shared experiences and collective bonds.

The mural, in its entirety, serves as a powerful celebration of both individuality and collective identity, where art and data come together seamlessly.

Animated Logo:

The Animated Logo was created throughout the family workshop, offering families an opportunity to put their own spin on the school logo. Families hand-colored 3 ‘frames’ of the logo, repeating their color choice and design styles across each frame. The frames were scanned and compiled to create a fresh, family-activated reboot of the familiar sun-shape associated with PS939.

Families offered their own self-expression to each frame they created, seeing how their individual action contributed to the school-wide collaboration.