Kids Create Mural for Park Slope Wine Bar

A group of 10-year-old artists designed a mural about the history of Brooklyn, called “A Collage of Little Known and Un-Fuh-Gettable Facts About Brooklyn,” now on view at Terroir Park Slope. The kids worked 250 hours over a six-month period to create the piece, with help from the Textile Arts Center in Gowanus. And the backstory’s pretty cute, too: Ten-year-old Park Sloper Chloe Schneiderat attended the Park Slope Terroir Friends and Family night last year with her mom. She told the owner, Paul Grieco, how much she liked the graffiti covered bathroom and he mentioned he was thinking of having an artist create a mural for one of the walls of the restaurant. Chloe was already a student of the Textile Arts Center and she offered to create the mural herself. After selecting the “History of Brooklyn” concept, she researched the history of Brooklyn back to 1645. A group of five of her friends, mostly classmates at P.S. 321, and her teacher from the Textile Arts Center helped with the project — drafting pencil drawings, finalizing and magnifying the images, screenprinting each image and letter of text onto paper and, finally, adhering all of the elements to Terroir’s wall. Check out another photo of the mural after the jump! The piece debuted at the bar over the weekend.