CCAD students interact with Super Mario Bros. mural

In its September 2011 subscriber edition, Nintendo Power magazine wrote an article remembering  Ken Aschliman (aka Kenay Kash) and his mural, which was on CCAD’s campus in fall of 2010 (when Aschliman was a senior).

Aschliman (CCAD 2011), a  Fine Arts major, was part of the team that created the 16- by 38-foot interactive mural depicting a scene from Super Mario Bros to stand as a metaphor for student involvement.

“Ultimately, students control their college experience if they participate in the discussion, like a player controls a video game,” Aschliman said in the article.

“The mural invited students to participate by posing in the landscape to complete the image,” he said.

The project was worked on by 12 students and took eight days to complete.

The mural was painted on the side of the administrative building on campus. It was up for three months to promote the Student Government’s inaugural town-hall meeting, which is an open forum for students to discuss any concerns and seek out answers to questions. While up the mural garnered some media attention and was the subject of several blogs.

CCAD students interact with Super Mario Bros. mural

CCAD students now have opportunities to paint murals on campus between the Schottenstein Residence Hall and the Administration Building.

A team of 12 students kicked off the new Student Government program with a 16 x 38 foot mural featuring Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Students and groups can submit proposals to paint a new mural every month.

The first mural, on display through September, took eight days to complete and was created to advertise CCAD’s inaugural Town Hall meeting, one of several events for students to voice their concerns and have questions answered.

Creators of the Super Mario Bros. mural include Ken Aschliman, Chavilah Bennett, Jessica Braunschweiger, Walker Crane, Greg Reyes, Emily Rickard Jennifer Sands, Pallavi Sen, Dillon Sirimongkhon, Michael Smith, Alex Trimpe, and Dion Utt.

To see local news coverage of the CCAD mural go to nbc4i.