Black Panther | Elementary School Mural

December 2025 | Milwaukee Area, Wisconsin

Painted for an elementary school collaboration space serving kindergarten through fifth grade, Black Panther is a bold, joyful mural created to help every child feel seen, heard, and welcome. Designed in a bright, fearless, pattern-happy style, the panther represents trust, curiosity, and the courage to share ideas out loud.

This is a space where creativity, collaboration, and ideation are always encouraged, and the mural leans into that energy—inviting students to trust themselves, try new things, and build ideas together. The playful patterns even echo the school’s striped graphic carpet tiles, allowing the artwork to spill off the wall and into the space.

At its heart, Black Panther reminds students that their ideas matter—and that creativity grows best when it’s shared.

Full wall image of black panther elementary school mural with geometric shapes in blacks, greys, and greens.
Empty classroom with tables and chairs, featuring a large mural of a black panther on the back wall and an American flag on the side wall.
Artist Hannah Tews standing in front of a cropped section near the black panther’s head on the elementary school animal mural.
Cropped image of the black panther’s tail with Hannah Tews signature detail on the elementary school mural.
Angled crop showing front half of black panther’s head and two front legs with geometric patterns on the animal mural.
Second painter working on detailed leg stripes of the black panther elementary school mural.
Cropped shot of black panther’s two back legs and tail on the elementary school mural.
Close-up detail of half-moon, dot, and diamond patterns painted on the black panther’s leg in the elementary school animal mural.
Artist Hannah Tews and second painter standing in front of completed black panther elementary school mural full wall.
Close-up focused solely on the black panther’s face in the animal mural.
Angled close-up of painted geometric shapes surrounding an electrical box on the elementary school mural wall.
Angled full-body shot of the black panther elementary school mural viewed from the tail end.
Full wall shot of artist Hannah Tews standing in front of the complete black panther animal mural.