A new look for downtown Southampton

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 An unusual mural created at Roberto's Pizzeria

Artists act as models: (L)Madison Masterson, Sidney de Roux, Cansis Sferrino, Ben Seymour, Justin Plaice, Mia Papasaderis, Amelia Kebbel, Chantal Rier, BJ Rier, Emily Burzynski, Shonagh Wright

Anna Claudette Ferguson worked with a teenage class of budding artists as part of the Southampton Art School's summer programs.

She took the young artists through a course on designing and painting a mural on a building's exterior wall. The wall chosen, with the support of the building's owner Jim Stark, was Roberto's Pizzeria in downtown Southampton. The normally blank wall overlooked the patio where people can sit outside and enjoy one of John Gray's famous pizzas. Now, however, diners also have an unusual mural to enjoy.

The painting is made up of the silhouettes of the 12 young artists in various poses of preparing pizzas and covers the entire wall. The class began work on the mural on Monday and finished it on Thursday with only a sealer coat left to apply.

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Instructor Anna Claudette Ferguson (in hat) with her young artists
 

Owner, John Gray and, instructor, Anna Claudette Ferguson