The MEXART Mural Project was completed last week along the Campus Parkway corridor, bringing a celebratory close to National Latin American Heritage Month!

The project focused on themes of belonging and migration, featuring art from 10 Mexican and Mexican American artists. Among these artists are longtime SDF community member Esmeralda Andrea Vasquez and Marisol Ortega, who spoke about her design work at Adobe’s Create Now Seattle x SDF Mixer in August.

Ortega’s piece showcases a hummingbird alongside florals, which “grow in Michoacan, where my family is from, and I remember the sounds and smells,” Ortega told Fox13 Seattle in an interview alongside Vasquez.

Vasquez’s piece, titled “In Another Life,” features three portals that represent the “three different generations between me and my two older sisters… I feel like we’re so far apart and I have a lot of women in my family, and so for me, it’s the strength of the women and the knowledge that came before me that is tying me to that culture, so I’m still learning so much about it and I think so many people will be able to relate to that,” Vasquez told Fox13 Seattle.

Help us celebrate design in community by visiting the murals alongside the Campus Parkway Corridor near UW Seattle and reading more about the project! Read more about the project in Seattle Times’ article “Ten artists paint Seattle murals representing migration and belonging.”

The Seattle Times

FOX 13 Interview

Images courtesy of the Seattle Times / Ivy Ceballo