Murals

This mural piece is number three, in a five-paneled mural painted on the wall of the College of Saint Benedict’s Multicultural Center. Myself, along with my colleagues Kenedi Mullings, Rachel Eiden, and Megan Novak developed the concept and the application of the mural for our campus. A unique aspect of this mural is that it is the first mural to be directly applied to the wall of one of the college’s main buildings (that is central to our students) rather than on a panel to be taken down. This meant the dedicated artists spent many hours standing and painting over a tarp in the Multicultural Center to bring this vision to life. The students listed above, and myself worked with professors Bruce Campbell and Rachel Melis as mentors to complete this piece. Together, we designed and painted five trompe l’oeil windows, each one opening onto an imagined dimension of a radically inclusive shared world. Then the broader CSB/SJU community was invited to graffiti and doodle the wall space around the artist-rendered "windows," crowdsourcing that part of the mural in response to a prompt about how to envision and practice inclusion.