Welcome to the third installment of “The Triboro 102 Mural” only featured in the Learning Commons Blog. I have been writing once a month about the journey of this mural going up in, you guessed it, Triboro Room 102, in Fall 2024.

 

This is a basic overview of the research 360 Thinkers wanted to include into the mural, this image is taken from a presentation made for Dr. Black to approve on the direction the group was taking. 

 

It was very important to Dr. Black that the mural tells the stories of the many strong and passionate women that are involved in those three eras. The first, and main focus, being Bessie Marold. 

 

The group of students felt it was also very important to tell the story of the land before the JCRS when it was beloved by the Ute and other Native American tribes. This piece of the mural conveys the specific mountain regions that the Ute described and were later named the Sleeping Ute and Chipeta Mountain. It also portrays Chipeta herself as the “white singing bird”

 

Lastly, Dr. Black had suggested to include influential women of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Neely Patton, now our Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness + Title IX Coordinator, had been with RMCAD a long time. Unfortunately she was not included nor was the Alf character, a sly addition of Dr. Black herself.