丹尼尔·威尔逊

2022年10月25日

A walk along the south side of 萨克拉门托 State’s Santa Clara Hall will give the phrase “seeing is believing” a whole new meaning for the next 12 months.

A group of artists has transformed the engineering building’s plain, empty walls into a work of art as part of a multi-year partnership with Wide Open Walls (WOW), 萨克拉门托’s annual citywide mural festival. Eight muralists each painted a section of the building’s wall with images evoking the University’s 反种族主义和包容性校园计划（AICP）.

The focus of the murals for year one is “Believing,” with upcoming years’ art pieces focusing on “Becoming” and “Being.”

校园壁画是AICP的目标之一，负责包容性卓越和大学多样性官员的副总裁米娅·塞特斯-蒂德威尔（Mia Settles-Tidwell）说。 As 囊状态 implements the AICP over the next several years, the evolving mural will highlight the University’s progress toward meeting those goals.

“We know that any work around racism, inclusion and belonging is a journey,” Settles-Tidwell said. “There’s not one of us who created racism that are living today. We’ve all inherited the isms. We’ve inherited the phobias. And we’re all situated differently to address that. So, we wanted the mural to take us on a journey.”

The murals will be preserved with images and videos before they’re replaced with designs by new artists.

“This year’s mural theme of ‘Believing’ symbolizes the journey that we are all on as we follow our North Star towards building a more equitable and inclusive Hornet community,” said Leha Hawkins, 包容的卓越 communications and programs specialist.

绘画工作于10月15日星期六开始，壁画家有大约一周的时间来完成他们的工作。 萨克州立大学选出的六位壁画家每人分配了一块7英尺乘30英尺的墙板。 第七位壁画家贝丝·康塞塔·鲁贝尔（Beth Consetta Rubel）被WOW选中，画了一块更大的墙板，尺寸约为14英尺乘44英尺。 鲁贝尔和她的团队莉莉安娜·罗德里格斯、布鲁克·科雷亚和沃尔特·安德森一起参加了这次活动。

Finally, Wood “Tsumnu” Rowe Farguheson balanced duties as site manager with his role as the eighth muralist. Farguheson’s panel is located in the center and will remain intact over the course of the project. It ties the theme’s three focal points — Believing, Being, Becoming — together with messaging about the project’s purpose.

“What I personally like from art and would like to happen is people walk down here and be inspired,” Farguheson said. “They’re here to go to school as well as learn and open up that brain sponge, so as they walk down here, they can see colors, shapes, designs, and ideas and be inspired to think differently.”

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萨克州立大学校友、壁画家埃里克·奥利弗（Erik Oliver）说，他想参与进来，分享他作为移民的故事。

“I want to be able to say something in my art,” said Oliver, who came to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 12. “I had to learn the language and it was a different kind of transition and a new experience for me, which came with a lot of unexpected challenges, and I want to be able to share that through my art.”

Luis Garcia, an assistant professor of Art who 教一门叫做“贫民区艺术”的课 contributed a mural that integrates his students’ work and highlights historical activists. 他说，他希望人们能够思考移民如何改善了他们周围的世界，即使他们是在违背自己意愿的情况下被带到美国的。

“The idea behind this mural was to create a civil rights leaders wall, who at one point in their own trajectory fought for creating a more humanistic environment for specific communities,” Garcia said.

萨克州立大学的学生和艺术家艾玛·蒙塔尔巴诺说，她的壁画是关于进步的。

“This is a really diverse campus, there’s a lot of different people,” Montalbano said. “I especially want a lot of people to be able to see themselves in the mural and see themselves represented in the student body and the work that the school is doing.”

艺术家们使用户外丙烯酸颜料，并依靠技术将轮廓投射到墙上。 每个人都从WOW获得了1000美元的津贴，其中包括500美元的补给费。

囊状态 artists applied by submitting a mural proposal and a short essay explaining how their artwork would convey the “Believing” focus.

The other artists taking part in this year’s mural project include Phillip Altstatt, an alumnus and staff member J之外播客的制作人是谁, and current students Jane Simeon and Anastasia “Annie” Sullivan, whose mural includes contributions from members of the campus community.

壁画家来自广泛的种族和文化背景，包括一位亚裔美国艺术家，三位拉丁裔艺术家，一位美洲原住民艺术家，两位黑人艺术家和一位白人艺术家。

Carol Nicknig是大学传播学院的营销和传播专家，也是活动的组织者，她说总共有30位艺术家提出了申请。 评选基于一系列标准，并由包括WOW首席执行官、创始人兼董事会主席大卫•索邦在内的10人委员会选出。

Sobon说，除了其他好处之外，与Sac州立大学合作可以帮助WOW发现可能成为其全市活动一部分的艺术家。

“We have always tried to be the most diverse mural festival in the country, and we’ve succeeded,” he said. “It has to be based on talent, but diversity is critically important. I want to be as inclusive as possible and I think we’ve done a good job doing that.”

Sobon said he hopes that the project not only makes 囊状态’s campus more beautiful, but helps more artists gain exposure, which can lead to more opportunities.

“One of the things that I love about this project is it’s not permanent,” he said. “The big one (by Rubel) might last 3-5 years, the other ones, we’re going to replace every year to give other students, other alumni, other members of the 囊状态 family, an opportunity to basically paint what they want, paint what they feel.”

An “Unveiling and Meet the Artists” event was held Monday, Oct. 24, at Santa Clara Hall. 艺术家们在揭幕活动前后出售商品，并与校园社区成员一起发表讲话。

Past WOW artwork that can be viewed at 囊状态 includes 2018’s “萨克拉门托” mural on Shasta Hall as well as 2019 murals at Brighton Hall, the Studio Theatre, and Lassen Hall.

Learn more about all of the artists as well as 囊状态’s Wide Open Walls partnership on the 大学网站.

更新（2024年3月25日）： 博彩平台正在与罗斯维尔的蓝线艺术公司合作，进行“归属之地”壁画项目的第二年，该项目目前正在进行中。 虽然该项目始于Wide Open Walls组织，但这种新的合作关系使该大学有机会与另一个区域艺术组织合作，该组织位于Placer县，即萨克拉门托州立Placer中心的未来所在地。 虽然原来的故事仍然在上面，但标题已经更新，以反映这一新信息。