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Photos: Snow will bring student art to life in Cedar Rapids

Students at Johnson STEAM Academy in Cedar Rapids painted a snowplow blade as part of a program that decorates city plows ahead of the winter season

Oct. 22, 2025 4:36 pm

Johnson STEAM Academy third-grader Karter Trotter paints a City of Cedar Rapids snow plow blade with classmates at the school in southeast Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The city’s Public Works Department’s Paint A Plow Program invites schools and organizations to decorate one of the department’s plow blades for the upcoming winter season. Crews will use the blade on roads near the locations that created the artwork and give people a chance to see the artwork in action. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) — Johnson STEAM Academy third-grader Karter Trotter paints a City of Cedar Rapids snowplow blade with classmates at the school in southeast Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The city’s Public Works Department’s Paint A Plow Program invites schools and organizations to decorate one of the department’s plow blades for the upcoming winter season. Crews will use the blade on roads near the locations that created the artwork and give people a chance to see the artwork in action. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Johnson STEAM Academy third grader Leniya Jefferson paints a City of Cedar Rapids snow plow blade with classmates at the school in southeast Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The city’s Public Works Department’s Paint A Plow Program invites schools and organizations to decorate one of the department’s plow blades for the upcoming winter season. Crews will use the blade on roads near the locations that created the artwork and give people a chance to see the artwork in action. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) — Johnson STEAM Academy third-grader Leniya Jefferson paints a City of Cedar Rapids snowplow blade with classmates at the school in southeast Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The city’s Public Works Department’s Paint A Plow Program invites schools and organizations to decorate one of the department’s plow blades for the upcoming winter season. Crews will use the blade on roads near the locations that created the artwork and give people a chance to see the artwork in action. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

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