Student Work

What Can a Mural Do?

Story map with students projects

With Professor Mary Coffey

Click the link to watch the LALACS Honors Thesis Presentations. 

• Los Que Se Quedan: Climate Change and Migrations in Rural Honduras by Olvin J. Abrego Ayala '25
• Latinos and Greek Life: A Dartmouth Perspective by Giselle Curiel '25
• From Puebla to el Barrio: Migration, Identity, and the Making of a Mexican Enclave in Passaic by Melissa Reyes '25 

Class Work Slideshow

With Prof. Israel Reyes (Spanish and Portuguese)

This term students explored print portfolios in Sherman Art Library's special collections. These portfolios have come into the library's collection between the 1930s and 60s and have never been studied or explored. 

• 25 prints of Leopoldo Méndez
• Carlos Merida, Trajes regionales mexicanos
• Carlos Merida, Mexican costume
• Carlos Merida Carnival in Mexico
• José Clemente Orozco
• 8 lithographs (Jose Clemente Orozco, Jiquilpan)
• José Clemente Orozco, 10 reproductions of his mural paintings
• Diego Rivera. : [Reproductions of Mexican frescoes]

With Professor Mary K. Coffey

• Video Essay: O.T.M. (Other than Mexican) by Nicolaus G. Dahl
• Video Essay: Selena by Haely D. Mendoza
• Video Essay: Addiction by Margaux L Van Allen

With Professor Desirée Garcia

Alondra Ajpacaja '28, "Modern Indigeneity in Guatemala and Assimilation to the US"

With Assistant Professor Jorge Cuellar