Students at

Peachtree City Elementary School are celebrating the month by creating

a story quilt representing everyone who makes up the school's community.

Keeping with the theme "Piecing It Together," approximately

400 students at the school have taken a piece of the quilt and drawn a

self-portrait.

School administrators

including Principal Lynda Lambeth and Superintendent John DeCotis also

have added their self-portraits to the quilt, which is being constructed

from paper and wallpaper.

DeCotis and

Peachtree City Mayor Bob Lenox have signed proclamations declaring March

as Youth Art Month at Peachtree City Elementary.

The unveiling

of the quilt took place March 22 at the school's PTO meeting. During the

meeting, finishing touches were added as parents and teachers placed their

own self-portraits into the piece.

Jenny Horne,

art teacher at Peachtree City Elementary School and chairman for Georgia's

Youth Art Month, says the quilt is being modeled after the famous story

quilts created by Faith Ringgold.

"We had

been studying her artwork in class so I thought it would be neat for us

to construct our own story quilt. We are using the same concept of having

a central area, which will be made up of all of our faces, and then placing

decorative patches around the edges," Horne said.

The quilt is

now displayed in the school.

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