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The Painted Lion Society is an international community organization wherein
professional artists work with groups of children, teens, or young adults to make exceptional works of public art, while offering the invaluable educational experience of collaboration in the professional artistic process.

The kids' groups that are involved are usually drawn from the community in or near the site of the artwork, and range in age from 8 to 17, at all levels of artistic ability and experience. However, the primary function is to include those that have not had much experience in art or opportunity for self-expression, at home, at school, or elsewhere.

Benefits of this experience include:

• a hands-on creative and learning experience
• a chance to discover and explore things about their world and themselves
• a chance to be heard
• less time spent in places where getting into trouble is easier than not
• each participant becomes a "part of something bigger than themselves" (- thus why it is called a "Society")
• fresh and exhilarating community public art

The Painted Lion Society can also tailor their projects to suit the needs of its participants. We can set the theme, process, or subject matter of each mural to involve topics that the children can relate to, or may need help with. This allows us to address issues or problems that can range from simply making a work of art about coping with current events, to creating and incorporating actual lesson plans specifically designed to help kids with their reading/comprehension skills, or math, or language skills, or history... or whatever may be the need.

The Painted Lion Society is indeed just that - a society... as in a community, a fellowship, a fraternity, a union. The kids get a chance to participate in something bigger than the sum of its parts. As each mural is uniquely created anywhere in the world, the experience will be recorded and shared as each new member makes their mark.  And the artwork will stand to remind them of it everyday, right in their own corner of the world.

You can be a member too. You may be able help paint, or plan, or clean up, or read us a story while we paint, or play music, or work at a benefit to raise funds, or have a bake sale, or make a contribution. email us to find out more.

If you are part of, work with, or know of a children's group: let us know who you are! Write us a letter (include photos!) and tell us about your group and why you want a mural.