About our logo
Our logo is a photograph of the Kino School sign that sits above the front entrance to the school. It was created during the 1999 - 2000 school year. About six students worked on it, welding the letters out of scrap metal, chains, pieces of old bicycles, and so on. Some of the letters are collaborations; some are the creation of a single student. We kind of forget now who did what, but the artists were David Anderson, Kurt Greever-Hoover, Emmett Kleber-Rose, Ernest Espinoza, and Adam Kidd (who's not in the picture). Ed Davis helped.
At the 2000 graduation, the older David Anderson said:
Creating this sign was a quintessential Kino project. To the innocent bystander the process looked like a riot in a junkyard with lots of noise, smoke, fire, and the occasional intemperate word. They sprayed on eye-popping colors, flung the letters onto the roof, tastefully illuminated them with black lights, and the result is startling and, I think, wonderful. Each letter is exuberant, idiosyncratic, and unique, much like our students, but the sign, for all its spiky particularity, is harmonious, like Kino on our good days.