Mitch Cudney, Nebo Education Association member at Springville Junior High School, has inspired students at his school through his art skills. Mitch wanted to motivate students at the school and maintain a theme that used the school's knight mascot. He selected the painting "God Speed" by Edmund Leighton to create at large six-by-nine foot mural for Springville Junior High School. The mural shows a lady tying a favor around the arm of a knight as he rides off into battle. Mitch thought that the lady and the knight would inspire both young women and young men at Springville Junior High School. Mitch, a local artist and art teacher at the school, chose the painting two years ago. He and his students have been working to complete the mural ever since then. Students recreated the painting by using one-inch square sections during a twenty minute daily enrichment class. Over a two-year period, Mitch Cudney and his students spent one-thousand hours to create the beautiful mural that now hangs in the center of the main hallway facing the entrance doors.
