Java Kai Mural
Overview
Betsy Schulz designed a Hawaiian-inspired mural for Java Kai, a small cafe in Del Mar, California. The owners, Vince and Sheri Martinelli wanted art that would make the cafe a landmark and that would be fun and interesting for children and adults alike. In late 2003 and 2004 Schulz enlisted students at Del Mar Heights Elementary School to help make tiles for the mural and and to help assemble it. The mural hung in the cafe for nearly six years. After the cafe closed in May of 2009, Schulz donated the mural to Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas, California, where it now hangs behind their “undersea” succulent garden.
| Name: | Java Kai Hawaiian-Inspired Undersea Mosaic Mural |
| Artist: | Betsy Kopshina Schulz |
| Medium: | Handmade sculpted and mosaic tiles, pebbles and found objects |
| Size: | 60 sq. ft. |
| Duration: | November 2003–February 2004 |
| Location: | 1555 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA (previous) 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, CA (current) |
| Client: | Vince and Sheri Martinelli |
| Thanks: | Vince and Sheri Martinelli, Barbara Hume, Del Mar Heights Elementary School students, parents and teachers, principal Wendy Wardlow and especially Pam Martin, Global Studies teacher |
