NMHU prepares to create new mural on Trolley Building

This mural, created by New Mexico Highlands University staff and students in 2017, was painted on the back of the school’s facilities building. The building is slated to be demolished soon; and the media arts department looks forward to creating a new mural on a different wall next week. Vanessa Maciel/Optic photo The community is invited to be part of the creation of a new mural at New Mexico Highlands University in the coming days. Students and staff with the school’s media arts department along with visiting artists Izia Lindsay and Al Díaz are set to begin work on a new mural at the school next week. Members of the community are welcome to come to the media arts’ McCaffrey Historic Trolley Building to partake in free events related to the project, including film screenings about street art and workshops about lettering and graffiti. Mariah Hausman, chair of media arts and technology as well as professor of visual communications at Highlands, said Lindsay and Díaz, both accomplished artists with a long history of doing street art, will be “injecting some street art and creative energy into our spaces and our classes.” “These two artists are very generously bringing their talents...