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Community Mural
updated: Sep 19, 2011, 5:44 PM
Source: Antioch
Local youth will serve as the artistic power behind a community mural painting project at Antioch University Santa Barbara (AUSB), allowing them to become facilitators in empowering an artwork of creativity and expression in celebration of Mexican Independence Day and Hispanic Heritage Month. The mural depicts the journey from the agricultural fields to higher education that many Latino
immigrants experience.
Lead artist, Victoria Trigueros, an art major at Allan Hancock College,
states that she "is very happy for the opportunity. The mural is about the
culture I grew up with. It was easy to come up with the idea for the mural
because it's what my grandparents went through." Trigueros graduated
from Pioneer Valley High School in 2009 in the same year that her
mom, AUSB Alumna, Alicia Trigueros, graduated with her
baccalaureate. Trigueros has had her work displayed at the Allan
Hancock Ann Foxworthy Gallery in Santa Maria. Other youth involved in
the mural project include Michael Trigueros, Angel Trigueros, and
Jacob Cardenas. Volunteers include AUSB Alumni Ingrid Elken and
Donna Mathes. Local merchant, Art From Scrap, donated paint to the
project.
The mural will debut at the AUSB-hosted Santa Barbara Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce Mixer on Thursday, September 22nd, from
5:30pm-7:30pm.
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world and across the country, online and at its five campuses in four
states. Each campus offers degree programs that meet-and often
anticipate-the pressing needs of its region and the wider world. The
University is also home to the landmark PhD in Leadership and
Change; Antioch Education Abroad, an exceptional opportunity of
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