Over 240 ceramic art students and their teachers at 14 high schools across Montgomery County, Maryland, created large clay totem poles. The project was a real world, hands-on learning experience for the students who were given the opportunity to create these art pieces for public display. In June 2016, 39 of the 5 to 6-foot-tall totem poles were installed along a well-traveled public walkway at the Grosvenor–Strathmore Metro station and at an entrance walkway at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland. The project is a great showcase for MCPS student achievement.

Arts Walk Totems  was commissioned by Strathmore and Montgomery County Public Schools in cooperation with Metro’s Art in Transit Program and was sponsored in part by FiveSquares Development.