PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Jill Scott was back at her alma mater – Girls’ High, in the Logan section of Philadelphia – on Thursday when the school and artist Patrick Dougher unveiled plans for a mural featuring Scott and the school’s students.
After Scott led the students in singing, the audience excitedly counted down in a dark auditorium before she and Dougher turned on a projector together, revealing Dougher’s design for the mural.
It shows Scott wearing a crown and surrounded by a halo “because we are all divine,” Dougher later explained. Scott is pictured passing another crown to Girls’ High scholars “because we’re all royal,” he said.
The mural celebrates the school’s 176th anniversary.
The other figures in the mural are based on students who Dougher asked to portray certain key concepts, such as “power.” (That student raised his fist.)
The school’s Latin motto, vincit qui se vincit, (“She conquers those who conquer themselves”) appears on Scott’s left shoulder.
After the unveiling, students got to work and began painting parts of the mural.
Scott stopped for photos with several people, including Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson and Mural Arts Philadelphia Executive Director Jane Golden.
