A&M Consolidated’s Graffiti Club designs dugout murals for baseball team

Alex Miller Last year, A&M Consolidated High School biology teachers Eden Fielder and Leah Hood noticed they had students in their classes who would doodle and draw graffiti-style art in their work. So, the teachers asked their students a question: Would you be interested in starting a Graffiti Club? A year later, the club has a handful of students who meet every other Wednesday for an hour after school. The club members have grown their graffiti skills and made signs to hang around the school building. “I think all of our messages have been really positive and we obviously don’t promote vandalism and nobody in the club is really trying to do that,” Fielder said. “We do have people all the time that are like, ‘Well, isn’t that illegal?’ And we tell them, ‘No, it’s not as long as you have permission or you’re doing work on a paper.’ It’s a fun, creative outlet.” People are also reading… Consol junior Perri Newton has taken art classes since elementary school and is currently in Art III. Fielder was her biology teacher during her freshman year and she invited Newton to join the club. Newton said she’s learned how to improve her...