ART 136 Murals and Movements

Production course guiding students through the collaborative design and production of large-scale public murals while examining the relationship between muralism and social movements across the Americas. Through hands-on studio practice, research, and fieldwork, students explore how murals have functioned as forms of political expression, public memory, cultural resistance, and community storytelling within struggles for social justice. The course considers muralism’s role in movements connected to labor, migration, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, and collective identity. Students develop technical and conceptual skills in collaborative design and large-scale painting while contributing to a collective public artwork.