Joplin Elementary and Middle School students will help paint a Halloween mural at Spiva Center for the Arts this week.

The mural will be displayed at 20th and Stephens Blvd. outside “Haunted Mining Days at The Connor Hotel,” a haunted house fundraiser for Joplin High School’s Project Graduation. According to chairman Phil Harrison, Project Graduation provides a “safe, alternative way of celebrating graduation at the end of the year.”

Harrison stated the group wanted to “give the younger children the chance to get involved and attend a real haunted house for their age group, too."

A special Haunted House for the Elementary Age Children will occur on Halloween, October 31st, from 12:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. It will feature "friendly Halloween characters in the daylight and provide a great experience for the younger children to remember.” Admission is $2 for children; parents are free.

Students in grades 3 through 8 are welcome to work on the mural at Spiva from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday October 9th thru Friday October 12th. For information, please contact Arlie Templeton at Spiva 417.623.0183.

For additional information, please call 417.623.0183.

George A. Spiva Center for the Arts
222 W. 3rd Street
Joplin, Mo 64801
Tel: 417-623-0183
Fax: 417-623-3805
www.spivaarts.org

See you at Spiva–where imagination lives!