DuPont Middle School unveils mural in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

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Hispanic Heritage Month mural unveiled astatine Alfred I duPont Middle School.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Alfred I. duPont Middle School unveiled connected Tuesday a mural showcasing Hispanic heritage, painted by a Jacksonville-area artist.

The message: To marque each students consciousness accepted.

“It meant truthful overmuch to me. I wanted to marque it arsenic beauteous arsenic possible,” said creator Whitney Esther Perez.

Perez said the Duval County School District asked her to taxable a conception sketch and past she was chosen to instrumentality connected the project. She said she enactment her bosom and psyche into the painting.

“This took maine implicit 40 hours,” Perez said. “I was successful present each day, astir apt 8 hours.”

Perez said students would travel up to her portion she was painting.

“I wouldn’t recognize they’d beryllium down me, and I took my headphones retired and they’d say, ‘Oh my goodness, you’re awesome. This is beautiful,’” Perez said.

The mural was unveiled astatine an lawsuit hosted by the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation, Alfred I. duPont Middle School, First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and the Art successful Public Places Program.

Dr. Diana Greene, the superintendent of Duval County Schools, says there’s meaning down the mural.

“All the threads travel together,” Greene said. “They whitethorn beryllium antithetic shades, antithetic hues, but we’re focused connected making this beauteous acceptance for each of our students.”