Rain Tank Mural Painting

In collaboration with Alberto Miguel, an MFA student in the Environmental Art and Social Practice program, Openlab, and the Center for Community Coastal Resilience, Seed Spoon Science undergraduates designed and painted a mural encapsulating the program’s interaction with the Tierra Viva garden space, the interaction between water and the land, and the connections between Chicano culture and nature. S3 undergraduates were able to engage in constructive conversation and creative exploration surrounding the mural design and the incorporation of various cultural and natural motifs. This gave undergraduates the opportunity to explore how their cultural and academic backgrounds could be expressed through art, and changed the way they viewed scientific communication. Now that the mural has been installed on the rain tank in the Tierra Viva garden, it provides a narrative to any garden visitors for them to understand the intricate way in which humans and animals interact with the land and how the environment shapes our landscapes and way of interacting with one another.