This course invites students to participate in the continuation of the mural projects developed in partnership with the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone. Through public art and collaborative learning, students will engage with the essential and generative question: “What does it feel like to be a settler on stolen land?”
Students will contribute directly to deepening our decolonial epistemologies while directly developing mural drafts in groups. Students will be engaging in critical dialogue around settler colonialism and its structural menace and creative resistance aesthetics. This is a space for hands-on work and deep listening. . No prior mural art experience is needed—just a commitment to community and care.This course honors Ramaytush Ohlone leadership and invites students to step into creative inquiry into the nature and capitulation of being a settler on stolen land and what that looks like visually. This is an ongoing CCA public art project the goal being to edify the viewer and project decolonial consciousness.
Students will contribute directly to deepening our decolonial epistemologies while directly developing mural drafts in groups. Students will be engaging in critical dialogue around settler colonialism and its structural menace and creative resistance aesthetics. This is a space for hands-on work and deep listening. . No prior mural art experience is needed—just a commitment to community and care.This course honors Ramaytush Ohlone leadership and invites students to step into creative inquiry into the nature and capitulation of being a settler on stolen land and what that looks like visually. This is an ongoing CCA public art project the goal being to edify the viewer and project decolonial consciousness.
- Instructor: Jack Leamy