Our next Family Tallulah Workshop will be Saturday, April 2 nd from 9 AM – 11 AM. We invite you to stop by and create beautiful clay tiles as a legacy piece for your family.
Our Tallulah project began in 2005 after the preschool was awarded a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Our initial project, the “Tree of Life” is in our front entryway and is a favorite place for families to take first and last day of school photos. Over the last sixteen years, our Tallulah tiles have spread across the walls of our preschool, leaving the legacy of the families and children that helped create them.
The name Tallulah was chosen for its Native American meaning of Leaping Water. Water is essential to all living things in our Sonoran Desert and can have a transformational impact on the desert surroundings. In this way, children and their families are like the water in the desert – both essential and transformational to our community of learning.
The beautiful clay Tallulah tiles are now simply synonymous with PPP. They have become a recognizable feature of who we are - from Pinnacle Peak peaking over the window of the Owl class to the Atelier Tree, Cottonwood Tree, and Havasupai Falls by the water fountains. Underneath Houdini’s home, our desert tortoise, are the bright orange Poppies and Schools of Fish. The tiles encircle our preschool campus with the Water, Desert, and Desert Wash projects interspersed throughout.
Our workshop this spring will focus on leaves for the new Mesquite Tree and pads for the Prickly Pear Cactus. We hope you’ll mark your calendar and join us:
