Muralist - Sculpture - Fine Arts
This mural was created to commemorate the Annika Rodriguez Scholars Program, a scholarship program dedicated to the values of diversity, community service, academic excellence, and leadership. When designing the mural, we intentionally invoked the style of Chicanx street art to pay homage to the Latinx roots of the program and create a distinctly unique piece of campus art. While the mural was initially conceived to honor the program, it is ultimately a piece made to celebrate diversity and activism in all forms at WashU and in St. Louis.
This mural as my other murals, means becoming engrossed in the narratives, channeling the emotions of the community and moment in history the mural represents. When you do this right and with intention, the work begins to speak through your soul. You can translate the anger of injustice into the strokes of your brush and portray the color of liberation movements on a wall.