Creativity Walk

How have residents adapted their homes and businesses to solve problems, brought new ideas into being, and added their own version of beauty to the local landscape?

For residents of Murray Hall, Halloween time means pumpkin flavored lattes, the sound of crunching leaves, chilly fall nights, and the hall-wide competition for best decorated wing. With themes ranging from Charlie Brown to simple decorative cut-outs shaped like candy corn and spiders, students use their doors and walls to express their excitement over the holiday.

These students utilize popular cultural phenomenons in the hope that others will be able to reminisce about their own memories of watching It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and find joy in the nostalgia of their childhood. 

Other students opt for a more generic approach, displaying images that can be found in department stores, seasonal Halloween shops, etc. They strive for a more universal sense of community where visitors can share common thoughts about well-known Halloween symbols.

Regardless of the content, each student who took the time to decorate their doors and hallway in festive arrangements was attempting to breath life into their day-to-day activities, mixing up the monotony of dull wall colors and simple wooden doors.