with the help of the community, they collected not 7,000, but more than 50,000 caps. >> miss arguello first painted it, and then she screwed in the bottle caps on three large pieces of wood. >> sounds easy, but even with volunteers helping out, it was a lot of work. when the mural was finally finished, it was too big to display in their school. >> well, i wrote an e-mail to the museum and called them, and they called back, and within a day or two, they said that "we would love to display it," and we were so happy that they gave us that chance. >> newark museum's ted lind said the decision to display the mural was an easy one. >> it's an incredible work of art. we've already had some people come up and want to buy the mural. and i think that says a lot about the quality of it -- the craftsmanship, the hours of labor that were put into that. >> in fact, the museum is encouraging the school to take on a new project -- to create a bottle-cap mural to complement the work done by another important artist. >> his name is joseph stella, and we have a major piece that he created in the 1920s h