School ceiling lights up with student art

Kayla Johnson and Marlena Olson

Two teenage Colfax student artists spent the past month and a half painting 14 ceiling tiles, each a reflection of a school program.

Their work now spreads across the ceiling outside the school art room on the high school’s second floor.

Seniors Kayla Johnson and Marlena Olson started working on the panels in January, carefully wiping the colors of the rainbow on the dark side of some extra ceiling tiles.

“We wanted to leave our mark on the school somehow,” said Olson, 17. Together, the two researched the logos and interpretive murals behind programs like Future...